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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.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, Sir Henry Mountagu, KNIGHT; Baron of KIMBOLTON, Viscount MANDEVILLE, Lord President of his MAJESTIES most Honourable Privy Council; And to the truly Noble and Virtuous Lady, the Lady MARGARET his Wife.
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, Sir Henrie Mountagu, KNIGHT; Baron of KIMBOLTON, Viscount MANDEVILLE, Lord President of his MAIESTIES most Honorable Priuie Counsell; And to the truely Noble and Vertuous Lady, the Lady MARGARET his Wife.
J. D. wisheth all temporal happiness, with the confluence of all spiritual Graces in this life, and eternal blessedness in the life to come.
J. D. wisheth all temporall happines, with the confluence of all spirituall Graces in this life, and eternall blessednesse in the life to come.
Right Honourable, and my most honoured Lord and Lady,
Right Honorable, and my most honored Lord and Lady,
AS long peace and prosperity, are the common causes of carnal security and hardness of heart, so these the usual forerunners of fearful punishments, seeing in this desperate Disease (which we may fitly call, the stone in the heart) more gentle Medicines will not effect the cure. For when mens hearts are come to brassy or flinty hardness, nothing will melt them (without some extraordinary work of the Spirit) but the fiery furnace of Affliction, nothing will bruise and break them, but the heavy hammer of Gods