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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.
IV. Another mutual duty is, A provident care of one for another, seeking the good of one another, even as of themselves. This their care of one for another respecteth especially both the Soul, and the good name of each other.
IV. Another mutual duty is, A provident care of one for ano•ther, seeking the good of one another, even as of themselves. This th•ir care of one for another respecteth especially both the Soul, and the good name of each other.
1 There ought to be a provident care for one another's Souls; as,
1 There ought to be a provident care for one anothers Souls; as,
1 If a believing Husband or Wife be married to an unbeliever, they ought to use all the means they can to win the other. This the Apostle Peter presseth upon Wives, for he commands them so to carry themselves towards their Husbands, That they may without the Word be won by the conversation of their Wives. 1And the Apostle Paul intimateth this to be the duty of Husbands towards their Wives;2 For, saith he, How knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? viz. by thy godly conversation. And if either of you shall be a means of the conversion of the other, how entirely will it knit your affections one to another?
1 If a beleeving Husband or Wife be married to an unbeleever, they ought to use all the means they can to win the other. This the Apostle Peter presseth upon Wives, for he commands them so to carry themselves towards their Husbands, That they may without the Word be won by the conversation of their Wives.