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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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4 In your rising, let out your hearts in a serious meditation of Jesus Christ, and of the great things he hath done and suffered for you, and of the many good things whereof in and through him you are made partakers. Meditate likewise on the infinite Majesty of God, whom the glorious Angels adore with covered faces, that your hearts being possessed with an awful apprehension thereof, you may perform the duties of Gods worship and service with such everence as becometh so sacred a Majesty.
4 In your rising, let out your hearts in a serious meditation of Iesus Christ, and of the great things he hath done and suffered for you, and of the many good things whereof in and through him you are made partakers. Meditate likewise on the infinite Majesty of God, whom the glorious Angels adore with covered faces, that your hearts being possessed with an aweful apprehension thereof, you may perform the duties of Gods worship and service with such everence as becometh so sacred a Majesty.
5 So soon as you are up and ready, with-draw your self into some private place, and there read some portion of the Scriptures, which will be an excellent means to season your hearts, and compose ⟨p. 94⟩your minds; yea hereby you will be the better prepared to hear the Word preached, and the better enabled to try the Doctrines delivered,1 according to the exhortation of the Apostle, Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.
5 So soon as you are up and ready, with-draw your self into some priva•e place, and there read some por•ion of the Scriptures, which will be an excellent means to season your hearts, and compose ⟨p. 94⟩your minds; yea hereby you will be the better prepared to hear the Word preached, and the better enabled to try the Doctrines delivered,