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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.
CAP. XXXII.
The last ordinary means of a godly life, is the choice of our company, shunning the society of the wicked, and consorting our selves with the godly and Religious.
The last ordinary meanes of a godly life, is the choyce of our company, shunning the society of the wicked, and consorting our selues with the godly and Religious.
§. Sect. 1 That we must carefully avoid the society of wicked and profane persons.
§. Sect. 1 That we must carefully auoid the society of wicked and prophane persons.
The last ordinary means of a godly life is, that we make good choice of our company, unto which two things are required: first, that we shun and avoid the society of the profane and wicked; the other is, that we consort our selves with the godly and religious. By the former we are not to understand that we must forbear the society of all, who are not as forward and zealous in their profession and practice as our selves, or who bewray in their course and conversation many infirmities and imperfections, as though those were to be esteemed wicked and profane, who have made but small progress in their sanctification, if any sparks of grace and goodness appear in them, though (as it were) raked up under the ashes of many and great corruptions; for then we should break the bruised reed, and quench the