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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.
2 In regard of manifold casualties whereunto we are subject; for death lieth every where in wait for us, so that we go every moment in danger of our lives: If we walk in the streets, so many tiles on the house top, so many deaths hang over our heads:1 if we walk in the fields, so many beasts as we meet withal, so many enemies to endanger our lives. Yea, how many have risen well in the morning, who have been found dead before the evening? And what hath befallen one may befall another. And how sad a thing will it be to be Arrested by Death, and called to the Bar of Gods Judgement, to plead Guilty or not Guilty, before we have […] our selves at the Throne of Grace, to Sue forth our pardon.
2 In regard of manifold casualties whereunto we are subject; for death lieth every where in wait for us, so that wee go every moment in danger of our lives: If wee walk in the streets, so many tiles on the house top, so many deaths hang over our heads:1 if wee walk in the fields, so many beasts as wee meet withall, so many enemies to indanger our lives. Yea, how many have risen well in the morning, who have been found dead before the evening? And what hath befallen one may befall another. And how sad a thing will it be to be Arrested by Death, and called to the Bar of Gods Judgement, to plead Guilty or not Guilty, before we have 〈…〉 our selves at the Throne of Grace, to Sue forth our pardon.
- 1Quem dies vidit veniens superbum, hunc dies vidit fugiens, jacentem, Senec.
III. A third Motive may be taken from the utility of this duty; and indeed manifold are the benefits which usually follow and accompany the same. As,
III. A third Motive may bee taken from the utility of this duty; and indeed manifold are the benefits which usually follow and accompany the same. As,