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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 Reasons proving that we can no otherwise please God then by doing his will.
§. Sect. 3 Reasons proouing that wee can no otherwise please God then by doing his will.
Unto which testimonies divers reasons might be added, which evidently prove, that we can no otherwise please God by our lives, then by framing them according to his will, and doing such service as in his Word he requireth, both in respect of the matter, and also the manner. As first, because hereby we shall prefer our own wisdom before the ⟨p. 16⟩wisdom of God, neglecting that worship which he hath appointed, either in respect of the matter or manner, because in our foolish conceit we suppose that we can devise a better; which is such an indignity offered unto his Majesty, that no earthly Prince would endure it at the hand of his greatest subjects. Secondly, we shall hereby disgrace Gods Law and Word, which he hath appointed to be the rule of all our lives and actions, as though it were insufficient to that end for which God hath ordained it; whereas the Apostle telleth us, that they are profitable for doctrine, reproof, 1correction, instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. And the Lord himself hath enjoined us to go unto them as unto the only Judge and counsellor, to be resolved in all our doubts, and directed in all our actions. To the Law and 2to the Testimony. And our Saviour to the same purpose hath exhorted us 3