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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 The second reason taken from our Justification, and the fruits which follow it.
§. Sect. 2 The second reason taken from our Iustification, and the fruits which follow it.
Finally, the benefit of our Justification, with all the fruits that do follow it, are so many strong motives to incite us unto the duties of a godly ⟨p. 693⟩life: for God, in our Justification, of his free grace, imputing unto us the death and obedience of Jesus Christ, hath forgiven us all our sins, and pronounced us just and righteous, in his righteousness. By which inestimable benefit, he hath bound us to serve and glorify him in all holy duties, who hath done so great things for us. For seeing there is no evil, like the evil of sin, no tyranny and bondage alike miserable, therefore when God of his free grace hath freed us from it, we must with all care flee sin, and take heed, that we do not again come into this thraldom. And seeing he hath forgiven us so great a debt, let this make us 1love him much, and express our love, by serving and pleasing him in the duties of holiness and righteousness. The which use the Apostle maketh of this benefit, namely, that being dead unto sin, that is, freed from 2the power and tyranny of it, and alive unto God, we should not let sin any longer reign in our mortal bodies, that we should obey it in the lusts thereof, but that we should yield our selves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and our members as instruments of righteousness unto God; and that being made free from sin, we should become the servants of righteousness. Which if we do not, we can have no assurance that we are redeemed by Christ and justified; seeing the same virtue and power of Christs death and Resurrection, which taketh away the guilt and punishment of our sins in 3