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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.
Besides the Public and Private, there are likewise secret duties to be performed by every one alone in their Closets or Chambers; which are briefly these.
Besides the Publick and Private, there are likewise secret duties to be performed by every one alone in their Closets or Chambers; which are briefly these.
1 Reading some part of Gods Word, or other good Books.
2 Meditating of what you have heard or read that day; which is an excellent means to make the Word both read and preached profitable unto you. For as meat, though it be never so wholesome, nourisheth us not, if it be not concocted and digested: so is it with the Word of God, the food of our souls, if it be not by meditation concocted and digested, it will nothing at all profit us; but being by meditation digested, it will then prove effectual to the nourishing of our souls.
2 Meditating of what you have heard or read that day; which is an excellent means to make the Word both read and preached profitable unto you. For as meat, though it be never so wholsome, nourisheth us not, if it be not concocted and digested: so is it with the Word of God, the food of our souls, if it be not by meditation concocted and digested, it will nothing at all profit us; but being by meditation digested, it will then prove effectual to the nourishing of our souls.