A20762:1397
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. II.
Of the means whereby we may attain unto integrity and sincerity.
Of the meanes whereby we may attaine vnto integrity and sincerity.
§. Sect. 1 The first means is, to set God before our eyes, and our selves in his presence.
§. Sect. 1 The first meanes is, to set God before our eyes, and our selues in his presence.
Now the means hereof are divers. First, we must set God before our eyes, and our selves in his presence, performing all 1the duties of his service, not as those who have men only to look upon and censure us, who alone behold the outward actions, but as in the sight of God, who searcheth and trieth the very secrets of the heart and reins, and knoweth whether our hearts be upright, and our actions performed in sincerity and truth, or deceitful and done in hypocrisy, not aiming at his glory in obeying his Commandment, but at by-respects and worldly ends: Herein following the example of David, who desiring to walk in the way of Gods Commandments