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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.
CAP. XXX.
Of those duties which concern our works and actions one with another, both out of contracts, and in our buying and selling.
Of those duties which concerne our workes and actions one with another, both out of contracts, and in our buying and selling.
§. Sect. 1 That we must labour both to do and receive all the good we can, in our dealings with others.
§. Sect. 1 That we must labour both to do and receiue all the good we can, in our dealings with others.
AND thus much concerning those duties which are to be performed in our society and conversation, respecting our speeches and conferences. Now we are to speak of those which concern our works and actions. And these either respect our simple and ordinary dealings out of contract, or those which are to be observed in contracts and bargains one with another. Concerning the former, I shall not need to say much more then I have ⟨p. 322⟩written before of those duties, which are generally to be performed in our whole conversation and society with our neighbours. Only let us observe this principal rule, that when we come in any company with our brethren, we endeavour by all good means, both to receive, and do all the good we can unto our selves and them, improving our society for the best advantage to all parties. And first for our selves, we must not idly and vainly spend our time, when we are in company, but labour as much as in us lieth, to reap what fruit and benefit we can by it, setting our selves to listen unto, and lay up for our use the good speeches, instructions, counsels, exhortations, admonitions or reproofs, which we shall hear from any, and those especially which are superior unto us in Gods gifts and graces; as also to take notice of those good examples of piety or Justice, faith, affiance in God, humility, meekness, patience, and such other virtues, that they may serve as patterns for our imitation; according to that of the Apostle; Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an example; and elsewhere he exhorteth the Hebrews