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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.
Having thus proved the lawfulness of this duty by Scripture, Example, and Reason.
II. Come we now to the Directions for the right manner of performing the same, which are set down by the Apostle in these words,1 Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
1 First therefore it must be in the heart, or with the heart, i. e. our hearts must go with our voices, the one must be lift up as ⟨p. 99⟩well as the other.1 For God is a Spirit, and therefore will be worshipped with our hearts and spirits, as well as with our bodies. And truly, singing with the voice, without the concurrence of the heart and spirit, is no more pleasing to God, than a sounding brass,2 or tinkling Cymbal.
- 1John 4. 24. Non vox, sed votum, non cho• dula musica, sed cor.
- 2Non cantans, sed amans, cantat in aure Dei.