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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.
Of the Sacramen of the Lords Supper:
TO the worthy partaking of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, there are three sorts of duties required.
1 Duties Antecedent, i. e. Such as must go before the Sacrament. 2 Duties Concomitant, i. e. Such as must accompany the action of receiving. 3 Duties Subsequent, i. e. Such as must follow after.
I. For the Duties Antecedent, though they are many, yet they may be all brought under this one head of Examination, which is not only commended by the Apostle, But let a man examine himself, 1and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup; But urged and pressed upon us with greater severity than any Precept in the Book of God; For faith the Apostle in the same place,2 he that, through a neglect of this duty of Examination, eateth and drinketh unworthily, 3