A20762:1678
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. 8 Fourthly, because it is an action which we do in remembrance of Christ.
§. Sect. 8 Fourthly, because it is an action which we doe in remembrance of Christ.
Fourthly, the right use of the Lords Supper much conduceth unto a godly life, as it is an action which we do in remembrance of Christ, and are thereby put in mind how much he hath done and suffered for us. For who can lightly esteem of any sin, which cost Christ no less then the price of his precious blood? Who will not bewail his sins past with bitter grief, abhor his present corruptions with mortal hatred, and utterly renounce and forsake them for the time to come, who duly considereth that they were the nails which fastened our Saviour Christ to the Cross, and that unsupportable weight, which made his soul heavy to the death, pressed out of his innocent body that bloody sweat, and extorted from him that lamentable complaint, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Who will be hired with the base wages of worldly vanities, to defile ⟨p. 499⟩his soul again with the filth of sin, which could no otherwise be cleansed and purged then by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, of infinite more value then ten thousand worlds? And so on the other side, who can be slack in the service of so gracious a Saviour? or be sparing in his pains to glorify him, who for his redemption hath not spared his dearest blood? Who would not worship him in all the duties of holiness, who hath purchased his happiness at such a rate as men and Angels were not able to discourse? who is so unthankfully slothful, that will not spend his sweat in his service, and his tears, because he cannot spend so much as he should, and even his blood to make up what is wanting in them both, for him and his sake, that hath cleansed our bodies and souls from the ingrained spots, and uncurable leprosy of sin, with his bloody sweat, yea full streams of his precious blood? Who will now grudge to do works of mercy, or to feed the poor members of Jesus Christ with his spare food, & to clothe them with his cast apparel; which remembereth that this bread of life came down from heaven to be our food, and hath not spared to feast us at his own royal Table, with his own body and blood for our spiritual nourishment unto eternal life?