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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 That God sealeth unto the godly, the assurance of their adoption.
§. Sect. 1 That God sealeth vnto the godly, the assurance of their adoption.
The fifth privilege peculiar to the godly, is the fruits and effects of the Spirit, the first and chief whereof is this, that the Spirit witnesseth and sealeth in their hearts and consciences the assurance of their adoption, whereby of the children of wrath and firebrands of hell, they become the children of God, and coheirs with Jesus Christ of their heavenly Inheritance. For as many 1as are led by the Spirit, they are the sons of God. For ye have not (saith the Apostle) received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba Father. The Spirit it self beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. And again, Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into 2your hearts, crying Abba Father. So the Evangelist John saith, that as many as received Christ, to them he gave this privilege to become the sons of God, 3even to them that believe on his name. So that whosoever lay hold upon Christ by a true and lively faith, and bring forth the fruits thereof in holiness and newness of life, thereby approving themselves to be such as are led by the Spirit, they have this high and honourable privilege, that they are the sons of God, and coheirs with Christ in ⟨p. 732⟩