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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.
Quest. How is Christs blood sprinkled upon our souls?
Ans. By Faith, applying the blood of Christ unto our own souls comfort; Faith is the hand of the Soul, and the soul by faith puts her hand into the Wounds of Christ, takes of his blood, and besprinkles her self therewith, applying the merits and the virtue thereof unto it self, and thence follows peace, and reconciliation with God.
Ans. By Faith, applying the blood of Christ unto our own souls comfort; Faith is the hand of the Soul, and the soul by faith puts her hand into the Wounds of Christ, takes of his blood, and besprinkles her self therewith, applying the merits and the vertue thereof unto it self, and thence follows peace, and reconciliation with God.
Obj. I would willingly apply the Merits of Christs Death and Passion unto my self, but oh, I am conscious of so much unworthiness, seeing nothing in my self why the Merits of Christs death should belong unto me, that I cannot, yea I dare not apply them to my self.
Ans. 1. It is good to be conscious to thy self of thine own unworthiness, but not so as to be kept thereby from applying of Christ, and the Merits of his Death and Passion unto thy souls comfort. And truly, if thou wouldst but consider, that God respecteth his own goodness, and not ours, in the offering of his Son, and that his grace is every way most free, this conceit of thine unworthiness can be no just plea against the applying of Christ, with the benefits of his Death and Passion unto thine own souls comfort; it should rather be an encouragement unto thee, because the more