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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 those manifold impediments of a godly life, which arise from our sinful and corrupt hearts and affections.
Of those manifold impediments of a godly life, which arise from our sinnefull and corrupt hearts and affections.
§. Sect. 1 The first impediment is an heart hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
§. Sect. 1 The first impediment is an heart hardned through the deceitfulnesse of sinne.
And thus have I showed, how we may remove those impediments of a godly life, which arise from the corruption of the intellectual faculties. Those which respect the heart and affections, are many and dangerous. The first is, when our hearts are hardened through the deceitfulness of sin, and so habituated and accustomed to evil courses, that it is death to us, if we endeavour to forsake them, and to serve God in the duties of a godly life. Of this we have many warnings in the Scriptures, as being a most dangerous rock, upon which many have suffered shipwreck: To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 1