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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 a godly life keepeth our consciences pure and peaceable.
The fourth benefit is, that this godly life doth keep our consciences pure and peaceable. For when we set our selves with full resolution to please God in all things, we carefully flee all known sins, whereby the conscience would be defiled. And so having nothing to lay to our charge, or to accuse us of before God, saving humane frailties and infirmities, for which we have (as it were) a pardon of course, sealed by the blood of Christ; the conscience becometh peaceable, and speaketh nothing but good and joyful things unto us, testifying the remission of our sins, our reconciliation with God, and that we and our works are accepted of him. So that if with uprightness of heart we will serve the true Melchizedek, in the duties of a godly life, he will be unto us, not only a King 1of righteousness, but also a King of peace. For dying for our sins, and rising again to justify us, he hath at his departure left this rich legacy to all his true Disciples; Peace I leave with you, may peace I give unto you. The 2which is not to be esteemed a gift of small value, seeing as the Apostle telleth us, it passeth all understanding; being one of those fruits, wherein ⟨p. 718⟩3the Kingdom of heaven, and our everlasting happiness is begun in us in this life; for as he saith, The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but