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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. 4 That we must examine our selves, how we have spent the day past.
§. Sect. 4 That we must examine our selues, how we haue spent the day past.
So likewise we may examine our selves, how we have performed those duties which belong to the particular parts of the day; As whether we did awake with God, and offered unto him our morning sacrifice of prayer and meditation; with what faithfulness we have walked in the duties of our callings, and how therein we have jointly aimed at Gods glory, and the good of our neighbours, together with our own profit; whether we have done the duties of them in the obedience and love of God, and ⟨p. 367⟩have performed our earthly duties, with heavenly minds and affections. Whether we have rightly used our recreations, refreshing our bodies and minds with lawful sports, in a good manner, to right ends, with observation of the rules and cautions required in them, especially in respect of their time, that we have not been over-lavish to the thrusting out, but rather fitting our selves for better exercises. How we have carried our selves in receiving of our food, blessing it by prayer and thanksgiving, and using it with temperance and sobriety, so as we have thereby been better fitted for Gods service. Whether we have rightly used our solitariness, spending our time neither idly nor unprofitably: and how we have behaved our selves in our society, both in our choice of good company, and in performing with them all Christian duties of piety, Justice, and civill honesty, for the mutual good of one another. How we have performed duties belonging to the family, and what care we have had, that not only our selves, but also those who are under our charge should serve the Lord. How we have carried our selves in our prosperity, by praising God for it, and by so using it, as that we might be the better enabled to glorify him, and to perform all good duties to our neighbours; and how also we have profited by our afflictions and chastisements, for the drawing of us nearer unto God in all holy and righteous duties, and the weaning of our hearts and affections from the love of the world. The which examination we should not think too tedious and laborious, if at least we be in our health and strength, and not disabled thereunto by our weakness, infirmities, and unaptness to take our rest, if at the first it be but a little disturbed;