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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. 1 The first privilege is, that the image of God is repaired in us.
§. Sect. 1 The first priuiledge is, that the image of God is repayred in vs.
And so much concerning the privative benefits which accompany a godly life. The positive benefits which we receive by it, are manifold. For first, hereby the image of God is repaired in us, and we are made like unto him, seeing this image chiefly consisteth in wisdom, holiness and righteousness, whereby knowing God and his will, we are transformed in all holy obedience unto it. So the Apostle saith, that we have put on the New man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image 1of him that created us. And exhorteth us to be renewed in the Spirit of 2our minds, and to put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. So that if we be renewed in wisdom and knowledge, in holiness and righteousness, we shall become like unto God, having his image through Christ renewed in us, after which we were created, but had it defaced in us by the fall of Adam. And this argument the Scriptures do often use to persuade us unto an holy and righteous life. So the Lord himself presseth this reason to his people: For I am the Lord your God, ye shall therefore sanctify your selves, and 3ye shall be holy, for I am holy. And again, Ye shall sanctify your selves, and be ye holy, for I am the Lord your God. And our Saviour Christ exhorteth us to be therefore perfect, that, as children of our heavenly Father,