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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 The 3. means is to consider that we can no otherwise be accepted and approved of God.
§. Sect. 3 The 3. meanes is to consider that we can no otherwise be accepted and approued of God.
The third means of perseverance is to consider, that there is no other way to be approved of God, either in our persons or actions. For 1though our works make never so glorious a show in the sight of men, and our first beginnings and proceedings seem most excellent, and give great contentment both unto our selves and all others, yet if we continue not unto the end, the Lord will take no delight either in us or them; according to that of the Apostle: If any man draw back, my soul shall take no pleasure in him. Fourthly, let us remember, that our begun and continued righteousness will not at all profit us, if we desist in our course, and return again to our former wicked ways. For so the Lord hath plainly said, That the righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of 2his transgression, and for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby, in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be ⟨p. 446⟩able to live for his righteousness, in the day that he sinneth, &c. And therefore as the sinner hath no cause to go on in his sin, despairing of pardon, so 3