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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. 2 Of Christian admonition, and what is required to the right performing of this duty.
Sixthly, by admonishing those who are ready to fall, that we may uphold them, and such as are already fallen through ignorance, frailty, and infirmity, that we may raise them up again. And this the Apostle requireth; ⟨p. 311⟩Brethren (saith he) if any man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness, considering thy self, lest thou also be tempted. Unto which duty that it may be well performed, divers things are required. First, wisdom and knowledge in him that admonisheth. So the Apostle saith of the Romans; that they were filled with 1all knowledge, and able to admonish one another. And first we must know, that the thing whereof we admonish our brother, be a sin, and not either lawful, or indifferent and rightly used of him. In which the Israelites failed, when they sent to admonish the Reubenites about building the Altar, 2and Eli in admonishing Anna to put away her drunkenness. Secondly, 3we must know, that being a sin, it is indeed committed by our brother, either upon that sure notice which our selves have taken, or by the credible testimony of others who are men of credit; and not when we have a 4