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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. 5 The last special privilege is Christian liberty.
§. Sect. 5 The last speciall priuiledge is Christian liberty.
The last special privilege peculiar unto the godly, which the Spirit bringeth, is Christian liberty, whereby being freed out of the hands of all 1our spiritual enemies, we serve the Lord in holiness and righteousness without fear, and so attain unto the glorious liberty of the sons of God, seeing his service is perfect freedom; and have power and dominion over all the creatures, so as we may use them to all purposes, both for necessity and comfort, having full right and interest in them by our adoption. The which privilege also is a fruit of the Spirit, according to that of the Apostle, Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. And is derived unto 2us, when as the holy Ghost, by a lively faith applieth unto us the virtue and efficacy of Christ Jesus his death and satisfaction, whereby this liberty was first purchased for us; in which respect, our Saviour also challengeth unto himself this power and prerogative of setting us at liberty, as being our alone Redeemer, who hath delivered us out of the hands of all our spiritual enemies; If (saith he) the Son shall make you free, you shall be free 3indeed. We were subject to the wrath of God, but our Saviour hath freed 4us from it, and by satisfying his Justice, hath reconciled us unto him. We were under the curse of the Law, but he hath freed us, by being made a curse for us. We were the wretched slaves of Satan, and in the state of death and condemnation: but he by his death hath destroyed him that had