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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
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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.
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 ⟨p. 69⟩unworthy thou art in thine own sight and sense, the more worthy thou art in the account of Christ. The greatest worthiness that any Christian can here attain unto is, to be sensible of his own unworthiness.
Ans. 1. It is good to be conscious to thy self of thine own unworthiness, but not so as to bee 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 everyway 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 incouragement unto thee, because the more ⟨p. 69⟩unworthy thou art in thine own sight and sense, the more worthy thou art in the account of Christ. The greatest worthiness that any Christian can here attain unto is, to be sensible of his own unworthiness.
2 Thou who complainest of thine unworthiness, I would ask thee, Whether any man before he made application of Christ, and of his Merits unto himself, did see any thing in himself why Christ should belong unto him rather than to any other? The Scripture saith, There is no difference, for all have sinned.