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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. 5 That prayer must be joined with our fasting. Jeiunium orationem roborat, oratio jeiunium sanctificat, Bernard. in Quadrages. Serm. 4.
§. Sect. 5 That prayer must be ioyned with our fasting. Ieiunium orationem roborat, oratio ieiunium sanctificat, Bernard. in Quadrages. Serm. 4.
The second thing required in the spiritual exercise, is effectual prayer; for this is that which giveth virtue and vigour to our fasting, even as fasting helpeth and strengtheneth prayer. And here first we must begin with humble confession of our sins, principally insisting ⟨p. 674⟩upon those whereby we have most displeased and dishonoured God, and drawn upon our selves his present Judgements. The which we may profitably aggravate by all their particular circumstances (as before I have showed) but chiefly because we have committed them 1against such a gracious God, who hath multiplied upon us so many favours and testimonies of his love, respecting our souls, bodies and estates, this life and the life to come. Unto which confession we must adjoin the adjudging and condemning of our selves to deserved punishments both temporal and everlasting, this which we fear or feel, and all others with it, if God should deal with us according to our deserts. By which confession and condemning of our selves, we shall glorify God, both by justifying his righteous Judgements, & magnifying his Mercies, either because he delivereth us out of our afflictions, or 2doth not inflict them in a measure proportionable to our sins. Secondly, hereby we shall increase our humiliation and sorrow for our sins, when as we thus rip them up and recount them, and (as it were) set them in order before us. And finally, we shall hereby much strengthen our faith in the assurance of the pardon of them, seeing if we confess