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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. 2 That a godly life is made easy, through the power of God the Father assisting us.
§. Sect. 2 That a godly life is made easie, through the power of God the Father assisting vs.
Secondly, the duties of a godly life, which are so difficult, in respect of our frailty and corruption, become easy and familiar unto us, not only in respect of this grace, whereby our natures are changed and renewed; but also in respect of those fresh supplies which we daily have from God himself, even the Father, Son, and holy Spirit. For first, God the Father doeth not content himself to have regenerated us, and renewed our nature, and so to leave us, but he daily repaireth our decayed strength; he doeth not only infuse some spiritual graces into us, and so leave us to be upheld by their inherent strength, but he still standeth by us, and continually assisteth us by his power and providence, out of his rich Treasury supplying what is wanting, strengthening us when we are ready to faint; raising us, when we slip and fall; repairing his graces with new supplies, when they are spent and wasted, and (as it were) re-enforcing his spiritual Bands and Troupes, when as they are enfeebled and wearied in the conflict of tentations. He not only commandeth the duties of his service, but also that we may be both encouraged and enabled to do them; he promiseth his assistance, and that he will join with us, supplying by his all-sufficient power, what is wanting through our weakness. Thus he willeth us to arepent and turn unto him, and b