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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.
2 Instructions how to bear, and improve thy present Visitation.
3 Comfortable promises of support under the sorest trials. And know for certain, that one Promise in the Book of God will be more effectual to yield thee comfort on thy Death-bed, than all the counsel of thy friends that shall be then about thee.
3 Comfortable promises of support under the sorest trials. And know for certain, that one Promise in the Book of God will bee more effectual to yeeld thee comfort on thy Death-bed, than all the counsel of thy friends that shall be then about thee.
VIII. Be often lifting up thine heart to God in Prayer. And when through weakness of body, and faintness of spirit, thou art not able to pour our thy soul in any set and solemn Prayer, send up some short ejaculatory Prayer unto God, as that of the poor Publican, Lord be merciful to me a Sinner; 1and also that of the poor man, Lord I believe, 2help thou my unbelief; and that of the Apostles, Lord increase my faith; 3and that of Stephen, Lord Jesus receive my spirit. 4These ejaculations going from the heart, they are acceptable and pleasing unto God; let us therefore as Augustine adviseth us, endeavour to dye praying,5 by a frequent breathing forth of these or such like ejaculatory Prayers.