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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.
And as we must come with a love to God, so with a love to Jesus Christ, who so loved us, as to dye a cruel cursed death for us. And thereby manifested greater love to us, than to himself, to the members of his mystical body, than to the members of his natural• body. For he offered up his natural body as a Sacrifice for the redemption of his mystical body. What greater love than this can be imagined Oh how doth it then concern us to go to that ordinance with hearts inflamed with a love to Jesus? This much of the necessity of our love to God, and to his Son Jesus Christ.
And as we must come with a love to God, so with a love to Iesus Christ, who so loved us, as to dye a cruel cursed death for us. And thereby manifested greater love to us, than to himself, to the members of his mystical body, than to the members of his natural• body. For he offered up his natural body as a Sacrifice for the redemption of his mystical body. What greater love than this can be imagined Oh how doth it then concern us to go to that ordinance with hearts inflamed with a love to Jesus? This much of the necessity of our love to God, and to his Son Jesus Christ.
II. For the Trial thereof, you may know it by these notes and characters.
1 Where there is a true hearty love to God, and to Jesus Christ, the heart will be much taken up with the thoughts of them. Such an one will be often thinking of God, and of Jesus Christ, and of their transcendent love manifested in the great work of Redemption. David having said, Oh how do I love thy Law? he presently adds,1 It is my meditation all the day. And indeed, whatsoever and whomsoever we love, we cannot but frequently think and meditate on. Indeed, such as love God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, in truth and sincerity, may have multitude of vain, wanton worldly, covetous thoughts in their hearts, but they take no true delight in them, they are rather their grief and their burden; but the thoughts of God and of Christ are very sweet