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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
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3 True saving knowledge is active and operative, being ever accompanied with practice and obedience, so that it worketh reformation in the heart and life of him that hath it. By this then try and examine thy knowledge, whether it be saving, sanctifying or no.
II. The second grace necessarily required of every Communica•t, whereof thou must examine thy self, is FAITH. Concerning which I shall show you,
II. The second grace necessarily required of every Communica•t, whereof thou must examine thy self, is FAITH. Conce•ning which I shall shew you,
1. What Faith this is. 2. The Necessity thereof. 3. Some signs and notes for the trial thereof.
1. What Faith this is. 2. The Necessity thereof. 3. Some signs and notes for the tryall thereof.
I. For the first, what faith this is. I answer, a true saving, justifying faith, may be thus described. Faith is a grace wrought in the heart of a sinner, by the spirit of God, through the ministry of the word; whereby being convinced of his sinful, miserable condition, and of all disability in himself, or any other mere creature to free him out of the same, he goeth wholly out of himself unto Jesus Christ, and receiving him as his all-sufficient Saviour, and Sovereign, resteth upon his perfect righteousness, and all-sufficient Sacrifice, for the pardon and forgiveness of his sins here, and for eternal life and Salvation hereafter.