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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. XIIII.
That a godly life is not tedious and troublesome to the regenerate man, but easy and familiar.
That a godly life is not tedious and troublesome to the regenerate man, but easie and familiar.
§. Sect. 1 That the regenerate have a new nature, unto which a godly life is easy and pleasant.
§. Sect. 1 That the regenerate haue a new nature, vnto which a godly life is easie and pleasant.
And thus it appeareth, that the godly life is easy and pleasant in it self and it own nature. Now if we can further prove, that it is also unto us nothing hard or impossible, tedious or troublesome, but contrariwise easy and familiar, then the objection of difficulties being sufficiently answered and removed, need not to be any impediment to hinder us from entering into the ways of godliness. To which purpose we are first to know, that howsoever the leading of a godly life be as hard and difficult, as grievous and even unpossible for a natural man, as for Lead to swim, or for the earth to leave its centre, and to mount up unto the skies; yet unto those who are regenerate, it is not so, seeing their corrupt nature is changed and sanctified, and they have a new nature wrought in them, unto which a godly life is easy and familiar, by reason of that similitude which is between them. And thus the Lord, when he would have his people to serve him in the duties of holiness and righteousness, doth promise to work this change in them: And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine