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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.
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,
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, shewing you,
1. The necessity of them, to a worthy partaking of the Lords Supper.
2 Some sings and notes for the trial of them.
I. First, For the Love of God, that is necessarily required of every Communicant, because the greatest evidence that ever was given of Gods Love, is there set before us. For Jesus Christ the only Son of God, and Saviour of man, is the greatest evidence ⟨p. 116⟩of Gods Love, that ever was, or can be. Should God set himself to make another world, and to confer on that world a greater gift than he hath conferred on this world, namely, his only begotten, and dearly beloved Son, we may boldly say, he could not. Neither can the creatures receive, nor the Creator give a greater gift, and that both in regard of the excellency of the gift it self, and also in regard of the need wherein we stood thereof, and of the good we reap thereby. Therefore Gods love in this evidence thereof, is so set out, as goes beyond all expression. God so loved the world,