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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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3 Call to mind thy sins, with the aggravations of them, and withal consider thy Spiritual wants, and then put thy self upon the duty of Prayer; confess thy sins unto God, with all the aggravations thereof, as well as thou canst, beg the pardon of them, and be earnest with God for such Graces as thou standest in most need of. By using and exercising that small ability to pray that thou hast, thou shalt increase it, and grow more able to do it with comfort.
3 Call to mind thy sins, with the aggravations of them, and withall consider thy Spiritual wants, and then put thy self upon the duty of Prayer; confess thy sins unto God, with all the aggravations thereof, as well as thou canst, begge the pardon of them, and be earnest with God for such Graces as thou standest in most need of. By using and exercising that small ability to pray that thou hast, thou shalt increase it, and grow more able to doe it with comfort.
4 Know this, that a man may pray most effectually, and acceptably, even when he cannot express himself in any apt words; for the work of the Spirit in Prayer consisteth not so much in the expression of the tongue, as in the affection of the heart, wherein the very life and soul of prayer doth consist.
Having answered the fore-mentioned Objections, I shall now give you some directions for the right manner of performing this duty of Prayer, so as it may be acceptable and pleasing unto God.