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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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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.
Having thus spoken largely to the first head of Examination, namely, our graces; I come now to the second, namely, our sins; wherein I shall study brevity. As it is the duty of every Communicant to examine himself concerning his graces, so likewise concerning his sins, which are like that accursed thing, whereof God speaketh to Joshua (Josh. 7. 11.) they must therefore be searched out. Yea they are like the wild gourd, that brought death into the pot. 1If they be not searched out, and cast away, they will turn the Sacramental bread and wine into spiritual bane.2 He therefore that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but who so confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Having thus spoken largely to the first head of Examination, namely, our graces; I come now to the second, namely, our sins; wherein I shall study brevity. As it is the duty of every Communicant to examine himself concerning his graces, so likewise concerning his sins, which are like that accursed thing, whereof God speaketh to Ioshua (Iosh. 7. 11.) they must therefore be searched out. Yea they are like the wilde gourd, that brought death into the pot. 1If they be not searched out, and cast away, they will turn the Sacramental bread and wine into spiritual bane.2 Hee therefore that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but who so confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
- 12 King. 4. 39, 40.
- 2Psal. 28. 13.