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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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3 Assurance of Salvation is not so ordinary as many Christians do ⟨p. 67⟩imagine, for indeed they are but for Christians who do here attain to a clear evidence and full assurance of their salvation; such whom the Lord here calleth forth to hard services, or great sufferings, to them he is pleased many times to give some clear evidence and assurance of their eternal life and salvation, for their better comfort and support. Thus many Martyrs have expressed their full assurance of a better life after this, whereas such a measure is not usually granted to ordinary Christians, their trials being but flea-bites in comparison of the others.
3 Assurance of Salvation is not so ordinary as many Christians doe ⟨p. 67⟩imagine, for indeed they are but for Christians who doe here attain to a clear evidence and full assurance of their salvation; such whom the Lord here calleth forth to hard services, or great sufferings, to them he is pleased many times to give some clear evidence and assurance of their eternal life and salvation, for their better comfort and support. Thus many Martyrs have expressed their full assurance of a better life after this, whereas such a measure is not usually granted to ordinary Christians, their trials being but flea-bites in comparison of the others.
VI. Then especially act the graces of Gods Spirit in thee; as,
1 Thy Faith, which is a grace of special use to thee so long as thou livest in this world, but most of all at thy last Sickness, and in the time of Death; therefore then especially be often actuating, and exercising thy faith in Jesus Christ; with the eye of faith look upon Christ hanging upon the Cross, there offering up his life as an all-sufficient Sacrifice, and full satisfaction to Gods Justice for thy Sins, and cast thy self into the arms of Jesus Christ, resting upon his Merits alone for life and for salvation: with a disclaiming of all confidence in thy self, or any righteousness of thine own, place thy whole confidence upon the righteousness of Jesus Christ, and upon the merits of his death and passion.