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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. 7 That our desires, resolutions, and endeavours must not be by fits and flashes, but constant and durable.
§. Sect. 7 That our desires, resolutions, and indeuours must not be by fits and flashes, but constant and durable.
Lastly, our desires, resolutions, and endeavours, must not be by fits and flashes, one while hot and earnest, and another while cold and remiss; 1but constant and durable, like those in covetous men, which never cease, till they be satisfied, or rather because they can never be satisfied whilst we live on earth: therefore they must never cease, but the more we have of these spiritual riches, the more earnestly we must desire and endeavour to have them still increased. For this life is not the time of our perfection, and full age in Christ, but of spiritual growth in grace, from strength to strength, and from a lesser, to a greater measure of godliness and righteousness. We must not, like those who are sick of an ague, be one while cold, and another while hot, nor have a good day for Gods service, and an ill day for the service of the devil and the world: for this were a sickness, and no spiritual health, which would prepare us for death and destruction, and not for life and happiness. Neither will God ever accept of it, ⟨p. 25⟩who can no more endure to have thus our time, then to have our hearts divided between him and his enemies. But our souls (with Davids) must 2