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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. 2 Divers reasons which may move us to diligence. First, because God requireth it.
§. Sect. 2 Diuers reasons which may moue vs to diligence. First, because God requireth it.
And thus we see what diligence and labour we are to use in leading a godly life. Let us now consider of the reasons and motives which may 1persuade us hereunto. And first, this diligence must be used in the duties of Gods service, because God requireth it at our hands. You shall diligently keep the Commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and Statutes which he hath commanded thee. Of which Commandment David taketh notice; Thou hast (saith he) commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. And Ezra, like a good Governor, backeth it with all his authority: Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done, &c. Unto this diligence the Apostle exhorteth, in whatsoever office or duty we undertake, 2and contrariwise dissuadeth from being slothful in any business, 3especially in the service of God, unto which he requireth fervency of spirit. More especially, this diligence is required in all good means, whereby we may be enriched with all virtue and saving grace. So the Apostle Peter; Giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue, and to virtue, knowledge, 4