A20762:1704
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 former point proved by the Scriptures.
§. Sect. 3 The former poynt proued by the Scriptures.
And yet I deny not but that there may be good use of bodily watching, when as it is moderate and seasonable, not only in respect of civill and moral affairs, as the dispatching of our necessary business, ministering to our friends upon their bed of sickness, and such like, but also as it conduceth unto spiritual ends; as when it furthereth us in keeping our spiritual watch, & is not rested in as a bodily exercise, but referred and destinated ⟨p. 508⟩to an holy and religious end. As when with David, Paul, and Silas 1we abridge our selves of sleep, that we may praise God by singing of Psalms, or lifting up in silence our thankful hearts unto God for extraordinary benefits; or when with our Saviour Christ, and his Church in persecution, we spend the night in prayer and other religious exercises. And thus our Saviour requireth of his Apostles bodily watchfulness to a spiritual end; Watch and pray (saith he) that ye fall not into tentation. But yet the Christian waking and watching, which in the Scriptures is so much commended unto us, is not corporal, but spiritual, or only corporal, so far forth as the Spiritual thereby may be advanced and furthered. For which the Word of God is so clear, that it needs not the light of any other Comment; Awake thou that sleepest, and arise up from the dead, and Christ 2shall give thee light. Out of which sleep of sin when they are awakened, he exhorteth them to keep the Christian watch: See then that ye walk circumspectly,