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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. 3 The third special privilege, is Sanctification by the Spirit.
§. Sect. 3 The third speciall priuiledge, is Sanctification by the Spirit.
The third special privilege bestowed upon the godly, is, that the Spirit of God sanctifieth them, changing and renewing their natures, from sinful corruption, to sanctity and holiness. For it so enlighteneth their minds, that they behold sin as it is in it own nature, most ugly and deformed, and causeth them to condemn it as the greatest evil. It worketh their wills, hearts and affections to a loathing and detestation of it, so that they consent not unto it, so far forth as they are renewed, even when the Law of their members, warring 1against the Law of their minds, doth lead them captive. Neither can they sin, as in former times, with full consent of will, because it is in part sanctified, nilling that which the flesh willeth, in which regard the Apostle John saith, that he who is borne of God, sinneth not, for 2his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is borne of God. And as being thus sanctified, they are inwardly kept from sin, in respect of the love of it, and free and full consent unto it; so also from innumerable outward acts of sin, into which others fall; partly, because they look more carefully & conscionably to their ways, but especially, because the good Spirit of God dwelling in them, quencheth the fiery darts of Satan's tentations, by his holy motions and monitions, 3which oppose and fight against them, and so stayeth them when they are ready to slip, and upholdeth them when they are ready to fall. Yea, by renewing and changing of our natures, it worketh in us, so far forth as we are sanctified, an utter averseness to sin, and maketh us ⟨p. 734⟩