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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 second rule respecting our Saviour Christ; namely, that we aim at him as the main scope of all our actions.
§. Sect. 3 The second rule respecting our Sauiour Christ; namely, that we aime at him as the mayne scope of all our actions.
The second rule of direction for the leading of a godly life, respecteth our Saviour Christ, namely, that we propound him as the main scope and mark at which we aim in all our actions, not resting in the best duties which we perform, as having in them any sufficiency to make us happy and blessed, but using them as helps to gain Christ, and to confirm and assure our union and communion with him, by whom alone we attain unto happiness. The end of our legal knowledge, is not chiefly that we may obey it, and so live in our own righteousness, but to discover our misery both in respect of sin and punishment, that thereby we may be driven out of our selves unto Christ, and seek in him righteousness and 1salvation. The end of the knowledge of the Gospel and of all other knowledge, learning and wisdom, is to bring us to the knowledge of Christ and him crucified; for the saving knowledge of this only, would make us happy, though we were mere Idiots in all other things; whereas if we had all other knowledge of the secrets of nature, the profundity of all Arts and sciences, yea even of the highest and darkest mysteries of Religion, yet wanting this alone, we should be miserable. And therefore the Apostle neglecting the excellency of all other wisdom, determined 2