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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 They must be entire and total, both in respect of the subject and object.
§. Sect. 4 They must be intire and totall, both in respect of the subiect and obiect.
Secondly, these desires, resolutions, and endeavours, must be entire and total, both in respect of the subject and object. For they must proceed from the whole heart and will, so far forth as they are regenerate, and hold place in all our actions and endeavours. Neither will God in his service accept of a heart divided, whereof one part is given unto him, and another to the world; nor of a double heart, one while aiming at his glory, and another while at the glory of the world, sinister and earthly respects. Neither can we after this sort serve God and Mammon, nor with an unsettled resolution, which now inclineth to Gods service, and soon 1after to the service of Satan, for the base wages of sinful profits and pleasures; nor with such a lame endeavour, as maketh us halt between gain and godliness, Religion and worldliness, the praises of men, and the approbation of God and a good conscience. But we ought with such firm resolution go out of the Sodom of sin, that we must not cast a look backward, 2as relenting in our purpose, and seeming loth to leave it; and so set our hearts and hands to the plough of Gods husbandry, that we never give it over, till we bring forth plentiful fruits of holiness, that so after, we may reap the harvest of heavenly happiness. In regard of the object 3