A41637:522
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.
2 Confess thy sins unto God in Prayer; spread them before him in a true and unfeigned acknowledgement and confession of them, freely judging and condemning thy self before God for the same.
That thy Confession may be performed after a right manner, it must have these properties,
1 It must be particular; and of special Sins; I mean, in thy confession thou must descend to thy special and particular Sins; the profanest wretch in the world may in a general manner confess, and say, I acknowledge my self to be a Sinner. But if thou wilt make a true confession of Sin, thou must lay open thy Sins in particular before God; and for thine encouragement thereunto, know, that the more particular thou shalt be in thy confession, the more comfort thou shalt find therein.
1 It must be particular; and of special Sins; I mean, in thy confession thou must descend to thy special and particular Sins; the prophanest wretch in the world may in a general manner confess, and say, I acknowledge my self to be a Sinner. But if thou wilt make a true confession of Sin, thou must lay open thy Sins in particular before God; and for thine encouragement thereunto, know, that the more particular thou shalt be in thy confession, the more comfort thou shalt find therein.