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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. 3 That all true service is done in obedience to Gods will.
§. Sect. 3 That all true seruice is done in obedience to Gods will.
We must therefore, in all Christian duties, propound this unto our selves, as our principal and main scope, that the will of God, and 1not our own, may be done in them; according to the example of our Saviour Christ, who did not his own will, but the will of him that sent him. We must labour after Regeneration, not as the act of our own will, but ⟨p. 422⟩of Gods. For we are borne again, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor 2of the will of man, but of God. We must labour to be sanctified, because this is the will of God, even our sanctification; that we may live no longer the rest of 3our time in the flesh, to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. We must pray, and in all things give thanks, because this is the will of God in Jesus Christ. Yea, 4whatsoever we do, we must do it, not as our own will, but as the will of God. The which is not only to be observed in the high and excellent duties of Gods immediate service, but even in the basest and most servile actions, even in the duties of the poorest and meanest servants, who must, in performing service to their Masters, propound unto themselves as their main scope, not their own profit, nor the doing of their own or their Masters will, but the will of God which requireth it at their hands. For so the Apostle exhorteth servants to be obedient unto their Masters, and to 5