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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 The third means is, to avoid the occasions of sin.
§. Sect. 7 The third meanes is, to auoid the occasions of sinne.
Thirdly, we must not only labour to keep our hearts pure from the sins themselves, with which formerly they have been defiled, but also avoid all 1the occasions and means whereby we may be drawn unto them, hating even the garment which is spotted with flesh. For as in vain he fleeth the plague in himself, who haunteth the company of those that are infected; as he fondly shunneth to be burned, who maketh it his sport to play with fire and gunpowder; and he foolishly protesteth against whoredom, who delighteth in the kisses and wanton embracement of some common Strumpet; So it is in vain to think, that we can preserve our hearts from the infection of sin, and from the fire and filth of burning and polluting lusts, unless we shun the means and occasions, as well as the corruptions and sins themselves.
Thirdly, we must not only labour to keepe our hearts pure from the sins themselues, with which formerly they haue beene defiled, but also auoid all 1the occasions and meanes whereby we may be drawne vnto them, hating euen the garment which is spotted with flesh. For as in vaine he fleeth the plague in himselfe, who haunteth the company of those that are infected; as hee fondly shunneth to bee burned, who maketh it his sport to play with fire and gunpowder; and he foolishly protesteth against whoredome, who delighteth in the kisses and wanton imbracement of some common Strumpet; So it is in vaine to thinke, that wee can preserue our hearts from the infection of sinne, and from the fire and filth of burning and polluting lusts, vnlesse we shun the meanes and occasions, as well as the corruptions and sinnes themselues.