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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.
CAP. XX.
Divers other objections made by the flesh against a godly life, propounded and answered.
Diuers other obiections made by the flesh against a godly life, propounded and answered.
§. Sect. 1 That it is not enough to live harmlessly, unless we perform religious duties.
§. Sect. 1 That it is not enough to liue harmlesly, vnlesse we performe religious duties.
Another objection which the flesh maketh against the strict performances of Christian duties, is, that it is unnecessary, seeing if we be harmless, and not guilty of heinous sins; as idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery, drunkenness, theft, and such like, but live honestly amongst our neighbours, doing no man any hurt, and in good fame and name in the world, the Lord will accept of us, and bear with our infirmities, though we be not so precise as many others, in performing the duties of a godly life, as they have been before described. To which I answer, that the Lord will never accept of us as his servants and children, if we do not at least desire, resolve and endeavour to yield unto him entire obedience to his whole Law, as well by doing the duties which he hath commanded, as in leaving undone the vices which he hath forbidden; and that this obedience chiefly consisteth rather in performance of that which is good, then in abstinence from that which is evil; & that if to be harmless and innocent,