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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
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THE SECOND BOOK of a godly life, containing the main parts and principal duties of it, which we ought generally to perform at all times, and upon all good occasions.
THE SECOND BOOKE of a godly life, containing the maine parts and principal duties of it, which wee ought generally to performe at all times, and vpon all good occasions.
CAP. I. Of the main duties wherein a godly life consisteth. 92 Sect. 1 That a godly life consisteth in doing all those duties which God hath commanded. 92 2 Of that Evangelical obedience wherein a godly life consisteth. 93 3 That this obedience must be performed after an Evangelical manner. 94 4 That we must join in it the duties of piety, righteousness and sobriety. 94 CAP. II. Of piety, which is the sum of the first Table. 95 Sect. 1 Of piety, comprising in it all the duties of Gods service. 95 2 3, 4, 5. Reasons moving us to embrace piety, taken from the excellency▪ profit and necessity of it. CAP. III. Of our adhering and cleaving unto God, with full purpose and resolution of our hearts. 99 Sect. 1 Of the sum of the first Commandment. 99 2 Of adhering unto God, what it is, and the necessity of it. 100 3 The properties of sound resolution; as first, that it must be universal. 101 4 The necessity of our adhering unto God, proved by divers reasons. 102 5 Of the means whereby we may confirm our resolution of adhering unto God. 103 CAP. IIII. Of trust, affiance, and hope in God. 105 Sect. 1 Of affiance in God, and wherein it consisteth, and of the reasons which may move us unto it. 105 2 Of the means of affiance. 106 3 Of hope in God, what it is, and wherein it consisteth. 107 4 Of the means of Hope. 108 CAP. V. Of the love of God, and divers virtues which spring from it. 109. Sect. 1 Of the love of God, what it is, ⟨image 8⟩and wherein it consisteth, and of the measure and means of it. 109 2 Of the zeal of Gods glory, what it is, and wherein it consisteth. 110 3 Of rejoicing in God, what it is, and the means whereby we may attain unto it. 111 4 Of thankfulness unto God, what is required unto it, and the means of it. 112 5 Of obedience unto God, what it is, and wherein it consisteth, and of the properties of true obedience. 113 6 Of the means of obedience, whereby we may be enabled to perform it. 114 7 Of passive obedience, and patience in afflictions. 115 CAP. VI. Of the fear of God, and humility which ariseth from it, joined with his love. And of Gods external worship with the body. 116 Sect. 1 Of the fear of God, what it is, and the causes of it. 116 2 That this fear of God is commended unto us in the Scriptures, and of the profit of it. 117 3 Of the means of obtaining this fear of God. 118 4 Of humility, what it is, and the causes of it.