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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.
2 By delighting in her. This the Wise-man commendeth, in Prov. 5. 19. Let her be as the loving Hind, and pleasant Roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love, that is, be thou enamoured with her, even to delight. Mark how the Lord termeth the Wife of Ezekiel, 1The desire, or delight of his eyes, because he delighted in her, and she was exceeding dear unto him. And truly, if a man exceed not the bounds of civility and sobriety, his affection towards his Wife cannot be too great. Haply thy Wife is not so beautiful, nor so delightful in her self, as some other women are. Yet as Parents love and delight in their children, not so much because they are comely, witty, or the like, but because they are their children; So thou oughtest to delight in thy Wife, not so much because she is beautiful, wise, or the like; but because she is thy Wife, even the Wife which the Lord hath allotted unto thee, believing her to be the fittest Wife for thee, with whom thou oughtest to rest satisfied.
2 By delighting in her. This the Wise-man commendeth, in Prov. 5. 19. Let her be as the loving Hind, and pleasant Roe, let her breasts satisfie thee at all times, and bee thou ravisht alwaies with her love, that is, be thou enamoured with her, even to delight. Mark how the Lord termeth the Wife of Ezekiel, 1The desire, or delight of his eyes, because hee delighted in her, and shee was exceeding dear unto him. And truly, if a man exceed not the bounds of civility and sobriety, his affection towards his Wife cannot be too great. Hiply thy Wife is not so beautiful, nor so delightful in her self, as some other women are. Yet as Parents love and delight in their children, not so much because they are comely, witty, or the like, but because they are their children; So thou oughtest to delight in thy Wife, not so much because she is beautiful, wise, or the like; but because shee is thy Wife, even the Wife which the Lord hath allotted unto thee, beleeving her to be the fittest Wife for thee, with whom thou oughtest to rest satisfied.
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