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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.
2 The remembrance of Christs death should work up our hearts to an ardent love of Christ, for that wonderful love of his, in giving himself for us, his Body to be crucified, his Blood to be shed, and his Soul to bear the intolerable burden of his Fathers Wrath due to our Sins, which made him sweat drops of blood in the Garden, and to cry out on the Cross, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Oh how should this ravish our souls with admiration of so great love? and inflame our hearts with love again unto him, who did, and suffered so much for us? How should the meditation of the manifold sufferings of Christ, especially of his bitter Death and Passion, work in us an holy passion of love?
2 The remembrance of Christs death should work up our hearts to an ardent love of Christ, for that wonderful love of his, in giving himself for us, his Body to be crucified, his Blood to be shed, and his Soul to bear the intollerable burden of his Fathers Wrath due to our Sins, which made him sweat drops of blood in the Garden, and to cry out on the Cross, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Oh how should this ravish our souls with admiration of so great love? and inflame our hearts with love again unto him, who did, and suffered so much for us? How should the meditation of the manifold sufferings of Christ, especially of his bitter Death and Passion, work in us an holy passion of love?
3 The remembrance of Christs death should work in us a care to please him in all things, to be willing to do and suffer any thing for him, who hath done and suffered so much for us; which Christ declareth to be a good proof of our love to him,1 saying, If ye love me, keep my Commandments. And though we cannot exactly ⟨p. 125⟩keep the Commandments of Christ, yet we may and ought sincerely to endeavour the keeping of them, without which our profession of love is but vain and fruitless; in show, and not in truth.