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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. 6 That by leading of a godly life we are assured to be freed from judgement & condemnation.
§. Sect. 6 That by leading of a godly life we are assured to be freed from iudgement & condemnation.
Lastly, by leading of a godly life, we may be assured, that we shall be freed from Judgement, and condemnation in the world to come. For if we live here in the fear of God, our sins shall not come into Judgement, because they are already judged in Christ, who hath satisfied Gods Justice for them, and payed our debt to the uttermost farthing. If we have been careful here to play the good Stewards, and daily keeping our reckonings straight, receive our acquittance and discharge before we sleep, sealed with the blood of Christ, applied unto us by a lively and renewed faith, we shall have nothing to account for at the Day of Judgement. If we have been faithful and diligent in our Masters service, we shall have nothing to do then, but to receive with joy ⟨p. 710⟩our reward and wages. If we walk not after the flesh, but after 1the Spirit, we are in Jesus Christ, and there is no condemnation due unto us; for he was condemned, that we might be acquitted, and suffered the punishment of our sins, that Gods Justice being satisfied, and wrath appeased, we might be freed from hell and death. If we be partakers of the first Resurrection, from the death 2of sin, to the life of righteousness, the second death shall have no power over us. Now what stronger motives can there be unto a godly life, then to be thereby assured of deliverance from these greatest evils? For how terrible a thing is it to fall into the hands 3of the ever-living God? and to be called to account before his Judgement Seat, who searcheth the heart and reins, and will call us to a reckoning for every idle word? Whose justice is so perfect, and his examination so strict, that though we were as