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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.
1▪ That the believer maketh conscience of his inward thoughts; whereas unbelievers with the Pharisees, make clean the out-side of the cup, labour to keep themselves from gross and scandalous sins, but suffer their hearts to range and rove into a world of vain and wanton thoughts, of profane and fruitless imaginations, and that without any remorse, or check of conscience.
1▪ That the believer maketh conscience of his inward thoughts; whereas unbelievers with the Pharisees, make clean the out-side of the cup, labour to keep themselves from gross and scandalous sins, but suffer their hearts to range and rove into a world of vain and wanton thoughts, of prophane and fruitless imaginations, and that without any remorse, or check of conscience.
2. That faith puts a purifying disposition into the heart, so that it loathes and detests sin, yea and strives against it, though it cannot altogether purge and free it self from sin: when the heart is once seasoned with faith, it will not willingly harbour sin, but labour to work it out more and more. By this then try the truth and soundness of thy faith, whether it hath wrought in thee, a purging, purifying disposition, to strive against thy corruptions, and to work them out of thine heart more and more.
2. That faith puts a purifying disposition into the heart, so that it loathes and detests sin, yea and strives against it, though it cannot altogether purge and free it self from sin: when the heart is once seasoned with faith, it will not willingly harbour sin, but labour to worke it out more and more. By this then try the truth and soundness of thy faith, whether it hath wrought in thee, a purging, purifying disposition, to strive against thy corruptions, and to worke them out of thine heart more and more.