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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. 5 That in our preparation we must use all helps which may further us in the sanctifying of the Lords Day.
§. Sect. 5 That in our preparation we must vse al helps which may further vs in the sanctifying of the Lords Day.
Secondly, we must in this preparation use all helps, which may further us in the sanctification of the Lords Day; as namely, those common 1means of prayer, reading the Word, and other holy writings, meditation, &c: and more especially we must work as much as may be, longing desires in our hearts after the Lords Day, that therein we may come into Gods holy assemblies, and be made partakers of his holy ordinances; and that we may truly say with David; My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgements at all times. And again, As the Hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God: my soul thirsteth for God, for the living God. O when shall I come and appear before God? For if we expect it not with desire, we shall not greatly rejoice in the fruition; if it be not our longing before it approach, it will not when we enjoy it, be our delight. Now to stir up these longing desires after it, we must meditate on the excellency of this Day above all others, seeing God hath consecrated it unto his worship and service as his own peculiar, drawing nearer unto us in all visible signs of his presence, and admitting us to come nearer unto him then at other times. Let us think on the spiritual beauty and bravery of Gods House, and of his holy Assemblies graced and adorned with his special favours, and with the light of his countenance, which infinitely excelleth the Sun in brightness and comfort, whereby the Church becometh fair as the Moon, clear as the 2