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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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2 Where there is an hearty love to God, and to Jesus Christ, such an one will be often speaking of them. For the tongue cannot but be speaking of those things and persons upon whom the heart is set. If the heart of a man be set upon the world, and the things thereof, his tongue will be most frequently talking and discoursing of them. In like manner, if the heart of a man be set upon God, and Jesus Christ, his tongue will be frequently talking and discoursing of them. By this therefore try and examine the truth of thy love unto God, and Jesus Christ. For he that saith he loveth God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and yet seldom thinks of them, or speaks of them, certainly he deceiveth himself; for we cannot but be thinking, and speaking of those whom we truly love.
2 Where there is an hearty love to God, and to Iesus Christ, such an one will bee often speaking of them. For the tongue cannot but be speaking of those things and persons upon whom the heart is set. If the heart of a man be set upon the world, and the things thereof, his tongue will be most frequently talking and discoursing of them. In like manner, if the heart of a man be set upon God, and Jesus Christ, his tongue will be frequently talking and discoursing of them. By this therefore try and examine the truth of thy love unto God, and Jesus Christ. For hee that saith hee loveth God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and yet seldome thinks of them, or speaks of them, certainly hee deceiveth himself; for wee cannot but bee thinking, and speaking of those whom we truly love.
3 Where there is an hearty love unto God, and Jesus Christ, it will make a man willing to do any thing for them. 1Jacob loved Rachel, and what did he not do for her? He served two Apprenticeships, and yet all seemed nothing to him for the love he had to her. And therefore where there is a sincere love to God, and Christ, it will constrain such an one to lay out himself to the uttermost for them, to put himself upon the practice of such duties, which are hard and difficult, and require much labour and pains. By this then try and examine the truth of thy love unto God, and his Son Jesus Christ.