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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 we must set our selves most seriously about Christian duties, when we find our selves best prepared and fitted for them.
§. Sect. 3 That we must set our selues most seriously about Christian duties, whē wee finde our selues best prepared and fitted for them.
Secondly, when we find our selves best fitted and prepared for the performing of holy and religious duties, the Spirit of God disposing us unto them, by enlarging our hearts, and inflaming us with the love of spiritual exercises, by the sweet taste and comfortable feelings which we find in them, we are not to let slip this opportunity, but entertaining these good motions, and nourishing in us these spiritual inclinations, we must set our selves seriously about them. As when the Lord calleth us in the Ministry of the Word, and thereby awakeneth us out of the sleep of sin, we must be ready to say with Samuel, Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth. When ⟨p. 463⟩1the Lord boreth the ear and openeth our hearts, we must with Lydia, attend 2unto the things that are spoken, embrace them by faith, and bring forth the fruits of it in the works of love. When he poureth upon us the spirit 3of grace and supplication, we must retire our selves a-part into our Closets, and pour forth our souls and suites before him by fervent prayer. When our hearts (like Davids) are with meditating upon Gods manifold mercies, and the sweet taste of his inestimable benefits duly prepared, we must not lose this opportunity by delays, but presently with him sing and