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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.
3. A turning unto God: 1for where there is true repentance, there is not only a turning from sin, but likewise a turning unto God. Whereby I mean a sincere endeavour to serve and please God in newness of life and better obedience. Hath then the sense and smart of thy former wanderings, made thee earnestly to wish, that thou mightest please God better for the time to come? make much of such affections in thy soul, for it is an evident sign of some change there.
3. A turning unto God: 1for where there is true repentance, there is not onely a turning from sin, but likewise a turning unto God. Whereby I mean a sincere endeavour to serve and please God in newness of life and better obedience. Hath then the sense and smart of thy former wandrings, made thee earnestly to wish, that thou mightest please God better for the time to come? make much of such affections in thy soul, for it is an evident sign of some change there.
- 1Ubi emendatio nulla, ibi panitentia vana. Tertul.
IV. A fourth grace necessarily required of every Communicant before he presume to come to the Lords Table, is LOVE.] ye• a two fold Love is required of every Communicant, viz. 1 A love of God and of Christ. 2. A love of his Neighbour.
Both which are unseparably knit together: yet for a more distinct handling of them, I will sever them in my discourse, and treat of them apart, showing you,