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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. 6 Examples of the faithful who have catechized their family.
§. Sect. 6 Examples of the faithfull who haue catechized their family.
Lastly, the examples of the faithful in all ages, who have been diligent in the performing of this duty, may persuade us unto it. Thus we read 1that Cain and Abel served God by sacrifices, which they could not have done, there being then no written Word for their direction, unless they had been instructed in Gods true Religion by their parents. So Abraham is commended for this duty, from whom God would not hide his secret counsels, because he knew that he would command his children and his household 2after him, that they might keep the way of the Lord. Thus Solomon was instructed 3by David his father, and by Bathsheba his mother, from his tender youth, to his riper age, as himself professeth; I was my fathers son, tender 4and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments and live, &c. And we read that Jehoash the King was instructed from his tender youth 5in the knowledge of God, by his good uncle Jehoiada the Priest. So also in the New Testament, this duty was practised; for there were two sorts of Catechumenoi, or such as were catechized; first, such as were adulti, and of ripe age, who were catechized in the principles of Christian Religion before they were baptized; as Theophilus, the Eunuch, Cornelius, and his household, Apollos, and many others, whereof these principles were called