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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. 3 That in all our dealings and bargainings we must carry our selves uprightly and honestly.
§. Sect. 3 That in all our dealings and bargainings we must carry our selues vprightly and honestly.
In our contracts and bargains, whereby we alienate or exchange the things which of right appertain unto us upon some equal and honest conditions, divers duties are to be observed of all Christians, who have trading and dealings one with another, some whereof are general to all contracts, and some more specially respect selling and buying. In all our contracts and dealings, there is generally required, that we carry and behave our selves simply and uprightly, honestly, and with a good conscience, as in the sight and presence of God, who seeth not only our outward actions and dealings, but also the inward thoughts of our hearts, and our most secret and hidden intentions, according to that of the Apostle, We trust we have a good conscience in all things, willing to live honestly. And 1contrariwise in all our contracts, we must carefully shun and avoid all guile and deceit, all hollow and double dealing, tending to the undermining 2and circumventing of our neighbours. So the Apostle exhorteth, that no man go beyond or defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord 3is the avenger of all such; for as the Psalmist saith, he abhorreth the deceitful 4and blood thirsty man. More especially we must in all our dealings observe truth in all our words, and not only speak it from our lips, but also from