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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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II. Call to mind the passages of Gods Providence towards thee, and treasure them up in thine heart and memory, labouring to make a right use of them. The truth is, it is an argument of a profane and irreligious heart, to let the remarkable passages of Gods Providence pass away without any due observation of them; for as the Psalmist speaketh, The Lord hath so done his marvellous works, that they ought to be had in remembrance; and therefore it is thy duty, and will be thy wisdom, as in the day, to take notice of all the passages of Gods Providence towards thee; so in the evening to call them to remembrance, that they may take the deeper impression upon thee.
II. Call to mind the passages of Gods Providence towards thee, and treasure them up in thine heart and memory, labouring to make a right use of them. The truth is, it is an argument of a prophane and irreligious heart, to let the remarkable passages of Gods Providence pass away without any due observation of them; for as the Psalmist speaketh, The Lord hath so done his marvellous works, that they ought to be had in remembrance; and therefore it is thy duty, and will be thy wisdome, as in the day, to take notice of all the passages of Gods Providence towards thee; so in the evening to call them to remembrance, that they may take the deeper impression upon thee.
III. If thou hast been moved to anger in the day time,1 let not the Sun go down upon thy wrath; which is the counsel of the Apostle Paul, whereby he implieth such a speedy suppression of anger, that it may not sleep with thee, for saith he in the next verse, This is to give place to the Devil, 2who, like the Lion that is greedy of his Prey,3 when the Sun is down creepeth forth, seeking whom he may devour; and in the night season, coming to the angry man in his bed, saith Gregory, he setteth before him the greatness of the wrong done unto him, and aggravateth the ame, by all the amplifying circumstances thereof, to heighten up his anger to a revenge;