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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.
Visiting the Sick being a work of Mercy, it will be thy wisdom so to manage and improve the same, that thou mayest both benefit thine own soul thereby, and likewise do good to the sick Party.
VIsiting the Sick being a work of Mercy, it will be thy wisdom so to manage and improve the same, that thou maist both benefit thine own soul thereby, and likewise doe good to the sick Party.
I. That thou mayest benefit thy self thereby, take these few directions.
I. That thou maist benefit thy self thereby, take these few directions.
1 In visiting thy sick Neighbour take occasion to think of thine own mortality, 1and proneness to fall into Sicknesses and Diseases: for that which befalls one man may befall another, in that we all carry about us, as mortal, so frail bodies, subject to the like calamities; which the Lord knows how soon may befall any of us.
1 In visiting thy sick Neighbour take occasion to think of thine own mortality, 1and proneness to fall into Sicknesses and Diseases: for that which befalls one man may befall another, in that we all carry about us, as mortal, so frayl bodies, subject to the like calamities; which the Lord knows how soon may befall any of us.
- 1Scito omnem conditionem versabilem esse & quicquid in alium incurrit, posse in te quoque ineurrere. Sen. de tranq.