A20762:1672
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. 6 That the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is a powerful means to further us in Christian duties, first, because thereby our Communion with Christ is confirmed, and secondly, our faith strengthened.
§. Sect. 6 That the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is a powerfull meanes to further vs in Christian duties, first, because thereby our Communion with Christ is confirmed, and secondly, our faith strengthened.
1So likewise the Supper of the Lord, rightly celebrated and used, is a powerful means to enable and help us forward in the performance of all Christian duties. First, because thereby our union and Communion with Christ, is more and more strengthened and confirmed; seeing God doth offer and give, and we take and apply unto our selves by the hand of faith, under the visible signs of Bread and Wine, Christ and all his benefits; his Body crucified, and his Blood shed, that they may nourish our souls unto everlasting life; according to that of our Saviour; He that eateth my flesh, ⟨p. 497⟩and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him; and again, He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. Now the more that this our union with Christ is strengthened and confirmed, the more powerfully do we perform all Christian duties, seeing from him all grace is communicated unto us, and all virtue and quickening life, whereby we are enabled to bring forth the fruits of holiness and righteousness. Secondly, it strengtheneth us unto all good duties, as it is a special means for the strengthening and increasing of our faith, which was the chief end for which it was ordained. For seeing the Lord hath not only committed his Covenant to writing, but for the further ratification of it, hath annexed unto it his seals, the Sacraments, there is now no place left to doubting; seeing it is impossible that the Lord, who is Truth it self, and his promises, Yea, and Amen, should fail