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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. XXXVII.
Two other reasons moving us unto a godly life. The first, taken from Christ, given unto us by his Father; the other, from the Covenant of grace made in him.
Two other reasons mouing vs vnto a godly life. The first, taken from Christ, giuen vnto vs by his Father; the other, from the Couenant of grace made in him.
§. Sect. 1 Of the inestimable gift of Jesus Christ, which should move us to love and serve God.
§. Sect. 1 Of the inestimable gift of Iesus Christ, which should moue vs to loue and serue God.
The fourth main benefit which God hath given unto us, is his only begotten and dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ, to be our Head and Saviour, in whom we were elected, & by whom we were to be saved & redeemed. For being fallen in Adam, who was the head and root of all mankind, and not only partakers of the guilt and punishment of his sin, but also of the corruption of nature derived from him, whereby we were disabled to all good, and made prone unto all evil, it would not stand with Gods Justice to elect or save us, till it were fully satisfied, and we freed from this sinful condition. Which being a work impossible to men and Angels, in respect of that infinite price which was to be paid, God, of his free grace and love ordained and appointed in his eternal Counsel, his Son to be our Saviour and Redeemer; and to this end, to take our nature upon him, that he might be unto his elect the second Adam, and the Head of his Church, in whom he chose them to life and salvation, which the first Adam lost both for himself and all his posterity. For howsoever the free love, and mere grace and good will of God, be the supreme and highest cause of our election and salvation, and Christ, in respect of it, but a means or subordinate cause of working that for us, which Gods love had first decreed (neither was Christ the cause that moved God to love us