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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 The fifth means, to meditate on the Day of Judgement.
§. Sect. 5 The fifth meanes, to meditate on the Day of Iudgement.
Finally, let us often meditate on the Day of Judgement, when as the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, and all hidden things brought to 1light, and laid open to the view of men and Angels; according to that of Ecclesiastes; God will bring every work into Judgement, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. And of the Apostle Paul: We must all appear before the Judgement seat of Christ, that every man may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. And then naked sincerity will shine most gloriously, when the gilded veil of hypocrisy being pulled off, the filthy corruption which was hid under it, will appear ugly and abominable in the sight of the holy Saints and blessed Angels. Then shall the upright in heart hold up their heads in the confidence of a good conscience, when the hypocrites and dissemblers shall be confounded with shame, their deceit and secret wickedness being discovered in the sight of all men. Then shall they who have served God in sincerity and truth, receive their heavenly Inheritance with triumphant joy, when guileful and double-hearted men shall be banished out of Gods presence, and cast into outer darkness, 2where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Finally, let vs often meditate on the Day of Iudgement, when as the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, and all hidden things brought to 1