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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.
III. Another mutual Duty which Husband and Wife owe one to another is Prayer. They ought to pray one for another. In a conscionable performance whereof, may Husband and Wife be helpful each to other,1 in all things needful to either of them, it •eing the means which the Lord hath sanctified for obtaining of every good thing,2 both for our selves and others.3 It is recorded of Isaac, That he entreated the Lord for his Wife, because she was •arren, and the Lord was entreated of him; i. e. the Lord heard his Prayer and granted his request.
III. Another mutual Duty which Husband and Wife owe one to another is Prayer. They ought to pray one for another. In a conscionable performance whereof, may Husband and Wife bee helpful each to other,1 in all things needful to either of them, it •eing the means which the Lord hath sanctified for obtaining of every good thing,2 both for our selves and others.3 It is recorded of Isaac, That he intreated the Lord for his Wife, because she was •arren, and the Lord was intreated of him; i. e. the Lord heard his Prayer and granted his request.
- 1Mat. 7. 7
- 2•am. 5. 16
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