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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. 7 That none are exempted by God from the duties of his service, under pretence of any other business.
§. Sect. 7 That none are exempted by God from the duties of his seruice, vnder pretence of any other businesse.
Finally, let those who excuse their neglect of Gods service, by pretending their multitude of important businesses, which allow them no leisure for Religious exercises, know and remember, that the Lord exempteth none, no, not Kings themselves, from performing of them, whose employments notwithstanding exceed those of other men, both in weight and number, as having not only the charge and burden of their own families, but of the whole Church and Common-wealth lying upon them. For even they are commanded to have with them continually the Book of Gods Law, and to read and meditate 1therein all the days of their life, that they may learn to fear the Lord their God, and to keep all the Words of his Law and his Statutes, to do them. Let them also consider the care of Gods servants in all ages, to yield unto him this service and obedience. So that though their businesses and employments have been never so manifold and weighty, yet ⟨p. 865⟩when they have been most encumbered, they ever found time sufficient for the Religious duties of Gods service. Who ever had more, and more weighty employments then Joshua, both in war and peace; as having not only a Kingdom to conquer, and many mighty and warlike enemies to subdue, which was afterward to be divided amongst all the tribes, but also a stiffenecked people under his government, unto whom, upon all weighty occasions he was to administer justice? And yet, as the Lord charged him, that the Book of the Law should