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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3 Good and holy thoughts first let into the heart of a Christian in the morning, will keep it in the better tune all the day after; so that the heart seasoned with heavenly meditations, or spiritual matter in the morning, will be the more savoury and spiritual all the day after.1 For the heart retains all the day a tincture of its first thoughts in the morning. As a vessel retains the favour of the liquor first put into it.
- 1Qu• semenest imbuta recens servabit od•rem Testa diu.Qu• seme•est imbuta recens servabit od•rem Testa diu.
Obj. Happily some will object, that to put in practice these rules and directions will take up too much time, even more than their Callings and employments will afford.
Obj. Happily some will object, that to put in practice these rules and directions will take up too much time, even more than their Callings and imployments will afford.
Ans. 1. True it is, some mens Callings and Employments do not afford them so much time, as others do, yet there is none but may find some time for spiritual and heavenly meditations, if it be but in their rising out of their beds, and putting on their clothes.
Ans. 1. True it is, some mens Callings and Imployments doe not afford them so much time, as others doe, yet there is none but may find some time for spiritual and heavenly meditations, if it be but in their rising out of their beds, and putting on their cloaths.