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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. 3 The third reason taken from the will of God, that we should thus serve him.
§. Sect. 3 The third reason taken from the will of God, that we should thus serue him.
Finally, it may be an effectual reason to move us, to embrace holiness, and to bring forth the fruits of it in a godly life, because it is 1the will of God, that we should so do, according to that of the Apostle, This is the will of God, even your sanctification. For the will of God is the perfect rule of all Justice and goodness, according to which we must frame all our actions, which that we may fulfil, we must utterly renounce our selves and our own pleasure, saying with our Saviour, Not my will, but thine be done: & with him esteeming it our meat & drink, to do the will of our heavenly Father. And this is that we daily ask in the Lords Prayer, that the will of God may be done in earth as it is heaven; that is, 2that we may obey it with that speed and diligence, cheerfulness and delight, as the holy Angels. And therefore unless we pray in hypocrisy, we must labour and endeavour, that we may in our practice attain unto that, which we crave at Gods hands in our daily prayers. Now that it is the will of God, that we should serve him in keeping his Law, and performing all the holy duties of a godly life required in it, it is clear and evident by his Word, wherein he hath revealed his will, and by innumerable precepts and exhortations, by which we are pressed and persuaded to sanctification and new obedience. So the Apostle exhorteth us as Gods Ambassador, to abe renewed in the spirit of our minds, and to put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. And again;