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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. 4 That a godly life strengtheneth and increaseth our hope and confidence in God.
§. Sect. 4 That a godly life strengthneth and increaseth our hope and confidence in God.
The second spiritual benefit of a godly life is, that it strengtheneth and increaseth our hope and confidence in God, grounded upon this assurance, 1that he will preserve all those that fear and serve him, from all evil, all perils and dangers, and the malice and might of all their enemies, and that he will provide for them all things necessary, seeing he, who is so bountiful even to his enemies, will not let his own children want any thing that is good, who have a desire to serve and please him. So that they which fear the Lord, have great cause to trust in the Lord, as the Psalmist 2exhorteth, because he is their help and shield. And this made the three Children so confident, that they cared not for the rage of the Tyrant, nor for the fiery Furnace, though sevenfold hotter then ordinary, because they had served God with a good conscience, and thereby were assured, that the God whom they served, was both able and willing to deliver them. 3This made Daniel to serve God constantly, whom he had formerly served, notwithstanding the cruel edict of the King; because he well knew, that the God whom he served, was able to deliver him from the Lions, as 4