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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. 6 That this spiritual joy is proper to the godly, and belongeth to no other.
§. Sect. 6 That this spirituall ioy is proper to the godly, and belongeth to no other.
Finally, the faithful, who resolve and endeavour to serve and please God in the duties of a godly life, have propriety in this spiritual and 1heavenly joy, seeing it belongeth to them all, and to them alone, none other having any part and share in this high and holy privilege. For first, this joy in the Scriptures is appropriated unto them only, and no other. So the Psalmist; Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous, for praise is comely for the upright. And again, Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the Tabernacles of the righteous. In which regard, he desireth to see the good of 2Gods chosen, to rejoice in the gladness of his Nation, that he might glory with his inheritance. And the Prophet Isaiah joineth these together; Thou meetest 3him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness. Secondly, the faithful can only thus rejoice, because all the causes of this spiritual joy belong peculiarly unto them alone. For they only are elected to salvation, in which respect, our Saviour exhorteth his Disciples to rejoice in this, because their names were written in the Book of life. They alone are the redeemed of 4the Lord, who being freed out of the captivity of all their spiritual enemies, have exceeding great and just cause to rejoice in this gracious deliverance. And when by the glad tidings of the Gospel, the Lord proclaimeth 5liberty to captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound, then doth he also thereby comfort them that mourn, giving unto them beauty for ashes, and for mourning, the oil of joy. So the Prophet saith, that the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting