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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.
I answer in general, Knowledge of all the fundamental Principles of Religion.
In particular, Knowledge of the Doctrine of the Sacrament.
Fundamental Principles of Religion are such as our salvation is founded upon, without the knowledge whereof a man cannot be saved, and they are these.
That there is a God. That there is but one God. That that only true God is distinguished into three Persons; Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, all equally God. That that God is the Creator and Governor of all things. That all things were made good by him, and are still governed by him righteously. That man in particular was made perfectly righteous by him. That man continued not long in his happy estate, but fell by transgressing the Commandment of God in eating the forbidden fruit. That we are all guilty of Adams sin, being in his loins when he committed that sin. That every one of us brought into the world corrupted and polluted natures, natures as full of sin, as a Toad is of poison. That unto this original corruption, we have added a numberless number of actual transgressions, and that in evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds. That by our sins we have made our selves liable to the wrath of God, to the curse of the Law, to all judgements and plagues here, and to eternal death and condemnation hereafter. That no man can free himself out of that miserable condition, whereinto by sin he hath plunged himself, neither can any mere creature help him. That God out of his free grace, and rich mercy, did send his own Son out of his bosom into the world to take our nature upon him, that therein he might become our Surety and Redeemer. That Christ was both God and Man in one person. That he was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary. That he died upon the Cross to save his people