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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. 9 Of the inestimable benefits which a godly life will bring in the world to come.
Finally, as a godly life is in this world profitable to all purposes, so is it most beneficial in respect of the life to come. For thereby we 1are secured from that everlasting woe and misery, prepared for all those who live and die in their sins, seeing there is no condemnation to those who are in Jesus Christ, which walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, and the second death shall have no power over them, who have their part in the first resurrection, to holiness and newness of life. Secondly, we are assured hereby of heavenly happiness; For they that have followed 2Christ in the regeneration, shall accompany him in glory. They that have lived like Gods children in holiness and righteousness, as in this life they have the adoption of sons, and the Spirit of adoption, 3crying in their hearts Abba, Father, so shall they in the life to come, receive from their Father their heavenly inheritance; whereas they who have neglected these duties, can neither have this hope here, nor that fruition hereafter, seeing without holiness no man shall see God. For 4howsoever (as one saith) God made us without our selves, yet he will 5not so save us. But having given us a Being, reasonable souls, and his Word, whereby he hath made us acquainted with his will, and required our conformity and obedience, he will have us join with him in working out our own salvation, by performing those duties