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A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties
A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helps enabling & the reasons persuading unto it the impediments hindering the practise of it, and the best means to remove them whereunto are added divers prayers and a treatise of carnal security by John Douname Bachelor in Divinity and minister of Gods Word.A guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helpes inabling & the reasons parswading vnto it ye impediments hindering ye practise of it, and the best meanes to remoue them whereunto are added diuers prayers and a treatise of carnall securitie by Iohn Douname Batcheler in Diuinitie and minister of Gods Word.
London: printed by Felix Kingstone and William Stansby for Ed, 1622
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.
§. Sect. 1 That we ought to take special care of our carriage at our meals.
§. Sect. 1 That we ought to take speciall care of our cariage at our meales.
The second kind of cessation from our labours, is that time which is spent daily in taking our repast and refreshing of our bodies, by receiving of our food, whereby our decayed strength is repaired, our health preserved, and we enabled to the better performance of the duties of our callings. The which is to be performed of us, not as mere natural men, but as Christians, using therein such rules and cautions as the Word of God prescribeth unto us, that we do not famish our souls, whilst we feed our bodies, nor weaken our spiritual part and defile our selves with sin, whilst our outward man is refreshed and strengthened with the use of Gods creatures. For as the devil layeth in every place baits and snares to entrap us, so especially upon our tables, and mingleth ⟨p. 280⟩the poison of sinful corruption with our meats and drinks, that if we do not use them in the fear of God, and keep a narrow watch over our selves that we offend not in them, they will prove no less dangerous to our souls, then necessary and profitable for the refreshing of our bodies. And this David implieth, where making many fearful imprecations against 1his own, and our Saviour Christs desperate enemies, he prayeth that their table might become a snare before them, and that that which should 2