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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. 9 Of weariness in well-doing, arising from the averseness of our wills unto good duties.
§. Sect. 9 Of wearinesse in well-doing, arising from the auersenesse of our wils vnto good duties.
The second cause is internal, which is the ill disposition of the mind and will, being averse unto all good duties and virtuous actions, and prone unto all evil; delighting in worldly vanities, and pleasures of sin, and dis-affecting and loathing spiritual exercises, as being wearisome and tedious, difficult and troublesome to our corrupted nature. The which is a notable impediment to our well proceeding in the ways of godliness; for either this unwillingness causeth such weariness, that it will make us either not to enter into the Christian course, or soon desist and return again into our former ways of wickedness & sensual delights, or else it will make us unsettled and unconstant in all good duties, doing them only by fits and flashes, when the good mood of devotion cometh upon us, and neglecting them, when other things which better please us come in the way; or finally, it quencheth our zeal and fervour of love unto the duties of Gods service, so that we perform them weakly and wearily, coldly and formally, with much dullness and spiritual deadness. The which impediments, if we would avoid, we must labour and strive against this weariness and faintness in well-doing, and endeavour all we may, to take away both these causes and effects of it. And first we must rouse up our spirits, and stir up Gods graces in 1us, as the Apostle exhorteth, that we may not be weary of well-doing, by ⟨p. 814⟩