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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.
CAP. XLV.
Of four other main privileges, wherewith God crowneth the godly, both in this life and the life to come.
Of foure other mayne priuiledges, wherewith God crowneth the godly, both in this life and the life to come.
§. Sect. 1 The sixth main privilege, is, that God bestoweth upon the godly the spirit of prayer and supplication.
§. Sect. 1 The sixth mayne priuiledge, is, that God bestoweth vpon the godly the spirit of prayer and supplication.
The sixth main privilege which God vouchsafeth to the godly, is, that he bestoweth upon them the Spirit of prayer 1and supplication, and both heareth and granteth all the suites which they make unto him. For he poureth upon the house of David, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and supplication, as he hath promised; and whereas naturally we know not how to pray, nor what to pray for as we ought, the Spirit helpeth our infirmities, and maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the Saints, according to the will of God. Yea, he not only by his Spirit teacheth us how to pray, and what to ask, but hath also bound himself by his gracious and free promises, that he will hear