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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
Book 4 › Chapter 1 › Section 6: §. Sect. 6 Of the rewards of sincerity and integrity.
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§. Sect. 6 Of the rewards of sincerity and integrity.
Fourthly, because the Lord doth richly reward this integrity and sincerity, with the blessings of this life, and that which is to come: For the 1Lord is a Sun and a Shield, he will give grace and glory; and no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. In this life he multiplieth all his favours upon them who serve him in sincerity and truth. For, he is good unto them which are clean in heart. And to such he limiteth all his gracious 2promises, which he performeth unto them upon this condition only. So he promiseth unto the Kings of Israel and Judah, that he will confirm 3their Kingdom unto them, and their posterity after them, if they would walk before him in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul. Whereof it is that Solomon affirmeth, that the Lord kept Covenant, 4and showed mercy unto his servants that walked before him with all their hearts. And therefore Hezekiah entreateth God to perform this promise unto 5him and his posterity, grounding his faith on his observing this condition, seeing he had walked before God in truth, and with a perfect heart. So God is near unto them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth; 6and will save and deliver them from all perils and dangers, and out of the hands of all their enemies: For he saveth the upright in heart, as David affirmeth. 7And so Solomon saith, that the righteousness of the upright shall deliver