A20762:2868
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.
A thanksgiving after the receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.
A thankesgiuing after the receiuing of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.
O Lord our God, most glorious and most gracious, infinite in bounty and goodness unto all thy children and servants in Jesus Christ, we do here offer unto thee the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, and do laud and magnify thy great and glorious Name, for all thy mercies and favours vouchsafed unto us; especially because thou hast loved us with an everlasting love, yea so loved us, that thou hast, of thy mere grace and free good will, even when we were strangers and enemies, given unto us thy Best-beloved and only Son, to work the great work of our Redemption, and by his death and precious blood-shed to deliver us out of the hands of all our spiritual enemies, and to free us from everlasting death and condemnation, that we might be heirs through him of eternal glory and happiness in thy Kingdom. We praise thee also for the free covenant of grace and salvation which thou hast made with us in him, whereby thou hast assured us of the remission of our sins, our reconciliation with thee, and of endless happiness in the life to come; and for confirming this covenant unto us, by annexing thereunto the seals thy Sacraments, ⟨p. 924⟩that thereby our weak faith might be strengthened and increased, and we more and more freed from doubting and incredulity. We thank thee (holy Father) for renewing this thy covenant with us this day, and for confirming our union with Jesus Christ our head, and one with another, by giving unto us his precious body and blood, as the Spiritual food of our souls, whereby they are nourished unto everlasting life. O Lord our God, it is thy great mercy, that thou nourishest our mortal bodies with food that perisheth, but how wonderful is this thy bounty and goodness, in that thou feedest our souls with this bread of Life that came down from heaven, and with this food that endureth to life eternal! If thou shouldest permit us but to gather up the crumbs that fall from thy Table, we must needs acknowledge, that it were a favour far above our deserts;