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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. 1 That only universal obedience to Gods will & Word is accepted of him.
§. Sect. 1 That only vniuersall obedience to Gods will & Word is accepted of him.
AND thus have we showed, that our obedience ought to be universal, in respect of the subject or the person that performeth it. In the next place we are to show, that there is also an universality required in respect of the object, whereby we understand the whole will of God revealed in the Scriptures. Neither is it sufficient that we perform some, or many duties, and neglect the rest; but we must in all things be conformable to all Gods Commandments: which is not so to be understood, as though we could actually do all that God requireth, for in many things we sin all, but of 1an habitual obedience and disposition of our hearts, whereby we desire, resolve, and endeavour in all things to do Gods will, in as great perfection as we can, bewailing our wants and imperfections, when we fail and come short of our desires. Of which we have an example in David, who 2had respect unto all Gods Commandments, and in the remnant of the Captivity, who bound themselves by covenant and oath to walk in Gods Law, 3and to observe and do all the Commandments of the Lord their God: and in Zechariah and Elizabeth, who were righteous before God, walking in all the 4Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless. The contrary whereof we see in the example of Jehu, who obeyed God in destroying the house