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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.
Of secret Prayer in the morning.
SO soon as thou art up, go into thy Closet, or into some private place, and there offer up unto God a Morning Sacrifice of prayer and thanksgiving, let any thing be omitted rather than that; if thy business be urgent and great, rise the sooner, dare not to attempt any thing, till thou hast commended thy self, and thine affairs unto God by prayer; if thou take any little liberty to omit this duty, the Devil will so work upon thee, that by little and little thou wilt wax weary of it, if Gods grace be not the more powerful in thee. And truly the morning is the fittest time for this duty of secret prayer, men being then freshest and freest from worldly businesses and distractions. We have a saying amongst us,1 that the morning is a friend to the Muses, as being the best time for study. I am sure it is as true, that the morning is a friend to the Graces, as being the best time for any holy service.
SO soon as thou art up, goe into thy Closet, or into some private place, and there offer up unto God a Morning Sacrifice of prayer and thanksgiving, let any thing be omitted rather than that; if thy business be urgent and great, rise the sooner, dare not to attempt any thing, till thou hast commended thy self, and thine affairs unto God by prayer; if thou take any little liberty to omit this duty, the Devil will so work upon thee, that by little and little thou wilt wax weary of it, if Gods grace bee not the more powerful in thee. And truly the morning is the fittest time for this duty of secret prayer, men being then freshest and freest from worldly businesses and distractions. Wee have a saying amongst us,1 that the morning is a friend to the Muses, as being the best time for study. I am sure it is as true, that the morning is a friend to the Graces, as being the best time for any holy service.
- 1Aurora Musis amica.