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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. X.
Of the third ground of a godly life, which is a pure heart.
§. Sect. 1 Of a pure heart, what it is; and whence it ariseth.
Besides those main grounds of a godly life before spoken of, saving knowledge, and a lively faith, there are two other which 1arise and spring from them, a pure heart, and a good conscience. By a pure heart, I do not understand such an one as is free from all sin and corruption: for who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? But such an heart as being regenerate by Gods Spirit, is in part purified and sanctified, hating sin, and loving virtue and holiness in the inner man; feeling the weight of corruption, and desiring to be cleansed from it, and the want of grace, and resolving to use all good means, whereby it may be supplied. And this is a fruit of saving knowledge, which discovereth unto us how ugly sin is in it self; and pernicious unto us, and the beauty and excellency of grace and godliness in it own nature, with the profit which redoundeth unto us by it; and also of a justifying faith, which applying the virtue of Christs death and resurrection, doth mortify our carnal corruptions, and quicken us in the life of grace, making us to hate that sin which we formerly loved, and to love and embrace that grace and virtue which in time past we loathed; and answerably to resolve, that we will use all good means to be freed from the one, and furnished with the other. All which proceedeth out of our assurance of Gods love, which being shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost, doth work in them unfeigned love towards