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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.
1 As Christs love to his Church was a true, 1real love, which he expressed, by giving himself for her: So should the Husbands love to his Wife be a true, and real love, not loving her in word only, but in deed also, manifesting his love by some real expressions thereof.
1 As Christs love to his Church was a true, 1real love, which hee expressed, by giving himself for her: So should the Husbands love to his Wife be a true, and real love, not loving her in word onely, but in deed also, manifesting his love by some real expressions thereof.
2 As Christs love to his Church was a free love, for his love arose wholly and only from himself, there being nothing in the Church to move him to love her: So should the Husbands love to his Wife be a free love, loving her, though there were nothing in her to draw his love, but only that she is his wife.
2 As Christs love to his Church was a free love, for his love arose wholly and only from himself, there being nothing in the Church to move him to love her: So should the Husbands love to his Wife be a free love, loving her, though there were nothing in her to draw his love, but onely that shee is his wife.
3 As Christs love to his Church is a constant and continued love, for whom he once loveth,