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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.
§. Sect. 2 That the duty of f•••ing is not ceremonial, but •e••i•ed Gospel, as well as the Law.
§. Sect. 2 That the duty of f•••ing is not ceremoniall, but •e••i•ed Gospel, as well as the Law.
Again, whereas I call it a religious act, I imply hereby that God is the Author of it, and requireth it at our hands, seeing he hath restrained us in all duties appertaining unto his service, that we worship him according to his revealed will, and not according to our own inventions. Neither are we to esteem it as a part of the ceremonial Law, which is abrogated by Christ; for howsoever there were many rites about it of this nature, which now are some of them abolished, and some out of use; as renting of their garments, wearing of sackcloth, sitting in ashes, and covering their heads therewith, and such like; yet in respect of the main substance, which is the humbling of the soul before God by all good means, that we may testify our repentance, and be made more fervent in our prayers, 1as it was required of them more especially then the outward rites and ceremonies in the time of the Law, so is it no less commended unto us under the Gospel, to be religiously observed upon all extraordinary occasions. For our Saviour Christ purposely teacheth us the right manner 2how i• ought to be done; commendeth the efficacy of it being joined with prayer; a