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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.
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, 1he loveth to the end: So should the Husbands love to his Wife be a constant and continued love, no• only by fits, for a while, but constantly till death.
3 As Christs love to his Church is a constant and continued love, for whom hee once loveth, 1hee love•h to the end: So should the Husbands love to his Wife be a constant and continued love, no• onely by fits, for a while, but constantly till death.