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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. 11 That the duties of a godly life must be done in humility.
§. Sect. 11 That the duties of a godly life must bee done in humility.
The seventh thing required unto a godly life is, that all the Christian 1duties which we perform, be done in humility and lowliness of spirit; for this is a grace most acceptable unto God, which will move him to inhabit in us as his Temples by his holy Spirit, for he dwelleth with him, ⟨p. 12⟩that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the humble ones. It moveth him to bestow all other graces, and enlargeth our hearts that they may be fit to receive them; for the meek will he guide in judgement, and the meek will he teach his way. And 2this Argument the Apostle Peter useth to persuade us to be clothed with 3humility: Because God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace unto the humble. It is the ornament and sign of all other graces, and of all Christian duties, whereby we may know whether they be counterfeit and hypocritical, or in sincerity and truth: for the oil of saving grace, and the water and wind of pride, will not mix together, and therefore we must be emptied of the one, before we can be replenished with the other. According to the song of the blessed Virgin; He hath filled the hungry with good 4things, and the rich he hath sent empty away. So that if we would be enriched with Gods graces, and be strengthened by his Spirit unto the duties of a godly life, we must, as we increase in them, increase also in humility, and as our Saviour hath taught us, When we shall have done all those things which are