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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. 2 That it is not sufficient to serve God in some things, and at some times.
§. Sect. 2 That it is not sufficient to serue God in some things, and at some times.
Again, it is ready to object, that if it be not sufficient to abstain from evil, and from gross and heinous sins, but that we must also perform the contrary duties, yet at least it is not necessary that we should be tied so strictly unto all duties of holiness and righteousness which God requireth; or if to all, yet not at all times, but that it is enough, if we perform some good duties, either towards God, or our neighbours, though we neglect others, and that we be at some times zealous and devout, though at other times we take our liberty, and ease our selves of this hard task, by taking our pleasures, seeing as long as we live in this world we cannot be Saints, but must live like other men, as being alike frail and full of infirmities. To which I answer, that even in this life, we must be of the communion of Saints, if ever we mean to communicate with them in glory and happiness; and howsoever corruption of nature and humane frailties hang upon us, yet we must not willingly nourish them, and cheerfully obey the flesh in the lusts thereof; for if we live after the flesh, we shall 1dye; but we must labour through the Spirit, to mortify the deeds of this body of sin, that we may live, as the Apostle teacheth us. And although we cannot, by reason of the law of the members, and the sin that hangeth upon us, yield unto the Law that perfect and strict obedience which it requireth: for in many things we sin all; yet if ever we would have any 2sound comfort in the gracious promises of the Gospel, we must yield ⟨p. 872⟩