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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. 4 That the duties of a godly life are made easy by the assistance of the holy Spirit.
§. Sect. 4 That the duties of a godly life are made easie by the assistance of the holy Spirit.
Finally, the holy Spirit so assisteth us with his grace, that the duties of a godly life, which are to the flesh difficult and unpleasant, become 1sweet and easy. For when we feel our selves most dull & dead, and utterly unable to move in the ways of godliness; this Spirit of life and power will quicken and revive us; according to that of the Apostle; If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies, by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. If our flesh rebel and labour to hinder us in all good duties, the Spirit of God will mortify and subdue it. If carnal corruption be so strong in us, that it withdraweth our hearts and affections from God and his service; This Spirit of God as a sharp razor will circumcise our hearts, and purging us from our natural 2corruption, will inflame them with Gods love, and with fervent desires to please him in all things. If we be so straitened in our zeal and devotion, that we can neither read, hear, nor pray, yet our comfort is, that the Spirit of God is not straitened, but can like fire thaw our 3frozen hearts, open our ears and hearts, that we shall be able with Lydia to attend unto those things which concern our salvation, and helping 4our infirmities, will make intercession for us with groanings which cannot be 5uttered. If we be destitute of all saving graces in our own sense and feeling, and do thirst after them like the dry lands, Gods Spirit will quench our thirst, and be in us as a fountain of living water springing up