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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 in our preparation we must purge our selves from all sinful corruption.
§. Sect. 4 That in our preparation we must purge our selues from all sinfull corruption.
And as we must thus in our preparation purge our hearts from worldliness, so must we with no less care cleanse them from all sinful wickedness. 1To which purpose we must search and examine them, if no sins lye lurking in them unrepented of, especially such as most hinder our profiting by the public Ministry, as wrath and maliciousness, (and chiefly against our teachers) filthiness, dissimulation, hypocrisy, prejudice and forestalled opinions, voluptuousness, covetousness, worldliness, and such like. And yet more particularly we must call to our remembrance what sins we have committed the week past, and seriously repent of them; lest continuing in our wicked courses, and cherishing our sins, (as it were) in our bosoms, when we present our selves before God, they move him to abhor us, and our sacrifices of prayer and thanksgiving, 2and to give us over to be further hardened by the deceitfulness of sin: whereof it will follow, that our hearts becoming fat, our ears heavy, and our eyes shut, we shall hear, and not understand, and see, but not perceive, that we might be healed and converted. And this the Lord required of the Israelites, that they should first wash them, and make them clean, 3(namely, in turning from their sins by unfeigned repentance) and then approach and come unto him. The which was typically signified by that ⟨p. 380⟩