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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 great and inestimable privileges wherewith God crowneth a godly life in the world to come.
§. Sect. 4 The great and inestimable priuiledges wherewith God crowneth a godly life in the world to come.
And these, with many other, are the rich and royal privileges, wherewith God in this world doth reward and crown a godly life: which though they be great and inestimable, yet are they all little, in comparison of that glorious happiness, which God hath reserved for those that love and serve him in the world to come, being all but short preludes to that heavenly harmony, and small earnest-pennies and first-fruits of that main bargain, and plentiful harvest. For there we shall, both in our souls and bodies, be perfectly freed from all miseries and evils both of sin and punishment, and all tears shall be clean wiped from our eyes; and 1there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, as the holy Ghost speaketh. And contrariwise, we shall there in joy such honours, riches and joys, as neither the tongue can utter, nor the heart conceive. For we shall inherit aa Kingdom, an bheavenly Kingdom: yea, the Kingdom cof God, which like himself, because it chiefly consisteth in the fruition of himself, is most absolute and infinite in all perfection. There we shall be crowned with a