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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.
The Motives may be drawn to Three Heads.
The Motives may bee drawn to Three Heads.
1 The Excellency. 2 The Necessity. 3 The Utility thereof.
I. The Excellency of secret prayer appears in two particulars.
1 In that it increaseth our Communion and Fellowship with God,1 bringing us into a familiar acquaintance with him. As the converses of a Christian soul with God in secret prayer are sweet; so oh how sweet are the discoveries that the Lord often makes of ⟨p. 7⟩himself to the soul of a Christian in his secret prayers? When Daniel was praying alone in secret,2 it was said unto him, Thou art greatly beloved.
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