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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 we must persevere both in profession and practice of godliness.
§. Sect. 1 That we must perseuere both in profession and practice of godlinesse.
But as we must be every day constant in the duties of a godly life without intermission, so must we persevere in them unto 1the end without apostasy or defection. For as it is the property of a faithful and blessed man to bring forth his fruit in due time and season, so also not to fade or wither, but to flourish always like the Palm tree, and to bring forth most fruit in old age. His righteousness endureth for ever, and his ways are like a shining light, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day. An example whereof we have in the Church of Thyatira, whose last works were more then their first. Now 2this perseverance must be showed both in embracing and professing the truth of Christian doctrine, and also in practising the holy duties which it teacheth in the whole course of our lives and conversations. Unto the former the Apostle exhorteth, Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath 3made us free. The Apostle John likewise: Let that therefore abide in you, which 4you have heard from the beginning. And our Saviour Christ in his Epistle to the Churches: That which you have already, hold fast till I come. The other,