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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. 3 Of the instrumental causes of a good conscience.
§. Sect. 3 Of the instrumentall causes of a good conscience.
For the effecting whereof, he useth as his instruments, the preaching of the Gospel, and administration of the Sacraments, and a lively faith, which by them both, made effectual by the inward operation of the Spirit, is begotten and also confirmed and increased in us. First, the preaching ⟨p. 71⟩of the Gospel is the instrument which the Spirit useth, whereby a good conscience is wrought in us; for when the Law preached, and the curse threatened, like a strange wind and tempest, hath rent the mountains, and broken in pieces the rocks of our proud and hard hearts, and as the earthquake and fire, which Elijah saw and felt, hath terrified the conscience with the guilt of sin, and caused us to hide our faces from Gods presence, 1then the still voice of the Gospel, causing these storms to cease, doth quiet and calm the conscience, so as we can without terror, yea with much joy and comfort, hear the voice of God speaking peace, and offering unto us reconciliation, grace, and salvation in Jesus Christ, assuring us upon the condition of a lively faith, bringing forth the fruits thereof in unfeigned repentance, that all Gods gracious promises, respecting this life and the life to come, do belong unto us. In which regard it is called glad tidings, which cause, even the very feet of those that bring them, 2to seem beautiful unto us; and the Gospel of peace, which Christ himself first preached. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, not as the