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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 showed you both the Public, Private, and Secret duties of Piety to be performed on the Lords Day,
Having thus shewed you both the Publick, Private, and Secret duties of Piety to be performed on the Lords Day,
Come we now to the Works of Mercy, which is another Head of duties which ought to be performed on that day; and therefore to duties of Piety you must add Works of Mercy on the Sabbath day: in a conscionable performance of both which consisteth the true sanctification of the Sabbath. And because man consists of two Parts, viz. of Soul and Body, and both of them are subject to many Maladies, therefore the Works of Mercy may be brought to these two Heads: ⟨p. 101⟩1 Such as concern the Soul. 2 Such as concern the Body of your Neighbour.
Come we now to the Works of Mercy, which is another Head of duties which ought to be performed on thatday; and therefore to duties of Piety you must adde Works of Mercy on the Sabbath day: in a conscionable performance of both which consisteth the true sanctification of the Sabbath. And because man consists of two Parts, viz. of Soul and Body, and both of them are subject to many Maladies, therefore the Works of Mercy may be brought to these two Heads: ⟨p. 101⟩1 Such as concern the Soul. 2 Such as concern the Body of your Neighbour.
I, The Works of Mercy which concern the Soul of your Neighbour are these, and such like.