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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.
Obj. 2. Some object their great inability to pr••••hey know not how to pray, not having the spirit of prayer?
Ans. 1. Let such bewail this their sad condition, and mourn under the sense of it, remembering what our Saviour saith, Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.1
Ans. 1. Let such bewayl this their sad condition, and mourn under the sense of it, remembring what our Saviour saith, Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.1
2 Go unto Christ, and say unto him as the Disciples did, Lord teach me to pray;1 with an acknowledgement of thine own inability, 2beg the assistance of Gods Spirit, and say, Lord, thou hast ⟨p. 9⟩promised thy Spirit to help the infirmities of thy Servants, O make good this thy gracious promise to me thy poor, weak and unworthy Servant, let me feel and find the assistance of thy Spirit strengthening my weakness, and enabling me to pour out my soul before thee in some acceptable manner.