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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. XXXVIII.
Of those Christian and religious duties which we ought to perform on the Lords Day, for the sanctifying of it.
Of those Christian and religious duties which we ought to performe on the Lords Day, for the sanctifying of it.
§. Sect. 1 That if we would sanctify the Lords Day, we must prepare for it before it cometh.
§. Sect. 1 That if wee would sanctifie the Lords Day, we must prepare for it before it commeth.
Besides the duties of a godly life which are every day to be performed, of which we have already spoken, there are others which more specially belong to the Lords Day, of which we are now to entreat. For howsoever we ought to devote our selves in the whole course of our lives to Gods service, yet this Day is to be set apart, and consecrated wholly after a peculiar manner to Gods immediate worship, so as we may not in any part thereof do the duties of our callings, or any of our own works, which tend to the advancing of our worldly ends. Whereof I will speak the more briefly, because I have in part touched already the main points and sum of the fourth Commandment, and because also divers of my learned and godly Brethren have excellently laboured in this Argument; leaving nothing for me after their plentiful harvest, but some few gleanings, unless I would pick out of their sheaves, and say the same things again which they have better said already. And yet because my desire is, that this Treatise should be perfect in all its parts, I will briefly speak of these duties, and give some directions for the spending of this Day in such a manner, as may be acceptable unto God, and profitable for the enriching of our souls with all spiritual graces, and the assuring and furthering of