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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.
1 Such as concern our behaviour in the Evening, before our going to bed.
2 Such as concern our behaviour at our going to bed.
I. The Directions which concern our behaviour in the Evening before we go to bed, are these.
I. The Directions which concern our behaviour in the Evening before we goe to bed, are these.
1 With-draw thy self into some secret and retired place, and there look back, and call to mind how thou hast spent the day; consider how thou hast performed the fore-mentioned Duties, belonging to the several parts of the day; call to mind what thy carriage hath been in secret, and what in company; how thou hast improved the one and the other;1 and whether thou hast discharged the duties of thy place, calling, and relations. As he is the best Trades-man, that every day in the evening taketh an account of his worldly losses and gains; so he is the best Christian, that every day in the evening taketh an account of his Spiritual losses and gains, whether he go forward, or backward, in the ways of godliness. And therefore, as many Shop-keepers have their Day-books, where into they enter all their buyings and sellings, even all their worldly transactions, which they usually review in the evening: so will it be a point of Spiritual husbandry in us, every evening to review the passages of the day, and our transactions therein, which would tend exceedingly to the good and welfare of our souls. History tells us of many Heathens who were wont every evening to review the