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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 the Sacrament of Baptism furthereth us in godliness, as we are thereby ingrafted into Christ.
§. Sect. 3 That the Sacrament of Baptisme furthereth vs in godlinesse, as we are thereby ingrafted into Christ.
More specially, the Sacrament of Baptism is to the worthy receiver, a notable means to enable us unto the duties of a godly life. First, because 1thereby we are sacramentally ingrafted into the body of Christ, and made members of his body spiritually by faith, as we are outwardly initiated, entered and admitted by the Congregation, as members of the visible Church, according to that of the Apostle, Ye are all the children of God, by faith in Jesus Christ; for as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. By virtue of which incision, we are enabled to bring forth the fruits of holiness and righteousness; according to that of our Saviour; I am the Vine, ye are the branches; he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same 2bringeth forth much fruit, (namely, by that life and sap of grace which he receiveth of me) for without me ye can do nothing. For as the Imp or Cion liveth not by his own life, but being cast out of the stock, dyeth and withereth; so being ingrafted into Christ, we live not our own life, but by virtue of that lively sap of grace which we receive from him, according to that of the Apostle; I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the 3