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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 The fourth special privilege, is internal and spiritual joy.
§. Sect. 4 The fourth speciall priuiledge, is internall and spirituall ioy.
The fourth special privilege, which the Spirit of God bringeth to the godly, is internal joy, which the Apostle numbr••• among the fruits of the Spirit, and is a grace that ariseth out of our justification 1and reconciliation with God, peace of conscience, and assurance of our salvation, which cannot be crossed by any occurrent. The which joy far exceedeth all the joys of the world. For they satisfy not, but leave the soul empty, so that the joy of one pleasure, doth but stir up the appetite to hunger after another, which if it should not be enjoyed, leaves nothing but sorrow behind; whereas this (as our Saviour speaketh) ⟨p. 733⟩is a full joy, in the fruition of God, partly, in sense and feeling, according 2to that of the Psalmist, O taste and see that the Lord is good! 3and partly, in the assurance of faith, which maketh us rejoice in expectation of full fruition. Worldly joy is short, and momentany, like the crackling of thorns under a pot, which causeth a sudden blaze, & as suddenly 4goeth out: but the joy of the Spirit is lasting and permanent, and 5