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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
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§. Sect. 2 When this solemn thanksgiving is most seasonable; how it differeth from that which is ordinary, and the kinds of it.
§. Sect. 2 When this solemne thanksgiuing is most seasonable; how it differeth from that which is ordinary, and the kinds of it.
Which examples we ought to imitate, consecrating unto God some day for solemn thanksgiving, whensoever we receive from him any great and extraordinary benefits, either privative, consisting in deliverance from some imminent or present evil; or positive, when as he vouchsafeth unto us some great and unexpected blessing. But above all other times we must perform this duty, when we celebrate the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, in remembrance of that inestimable benefit, the great work of our Redemption, wrought by the death and Passion of Jesus Christ, whereby we are delivered out of the hands of all our spiritual enemies. The which is called the Eucharist, or a Sacrament of thanksgiving, because therein we do, in a solemn manner, render unto God thanks and praise, for Christ and all his benefits, the pardon of our sins, and that great Charter of our peace, sealed first by his blood, and now by ⟨p. 664⟩this Sacrament instituted to put us in remembrance of it, and as it were afresh to renew his Covenant, and to put our Pardon into our own hands. Now this extraordinary thanksgiving to be used upon such special occasions, differeth from that which is ordinary, not in the matter, which is one and the same, but in the manner and measure, which according to the occasion, ought to be extraordinary in quantity and degree. For our hearts must be more then usually inflamed with the apprehension of Gods love and goodness, and inward joy in the special fruition of his singular blessings, which must affect them with extraordinary zeal to glorify and praise him, and to express our thankfulness by renewing our covenant with God, binding our selves by firm resolution, that in sense of his present favours, we will be more devout and zealous in all duties of his service for the time to come, then ever we have been in time past. And by continuing our thanksgiving in a solemn manner, for a longer time then ordinary, setting it apart as a Sabbath of rest from all our worldly labours, that it may be wholly spent in Gods praises, and in testifying our love and inward joy and rejoicing in him, by outward feasting, and more liberal use of meats and drinks, and all other comforts of this life;