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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 That a good conscience maketh us cheerful in Gods service.
§. Sect. 3 That a good conscience maketh vs cheerfull in Gods seruice.
Lastly, a good conscience maketh us cheerful and diligent in Gods 1service, and willing to do all things which are pleasing in his sight. So the Prophet speaking of the faithful, saith, that they should hear a voice behind them, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left: That is, besides their outward teaching ⟨p. 80⟩in the Ministry of the Word, they should have an inward teacher to direct and admonish them, even the Spirit of God, speaking unto them in the heart and conscience. And this is that which David meaneth, where he saith, that his reins did teach him in the night season, that is, the voice 2of conscience, which did show him the ways of God, and moved him with cheerfulness to walk in them. The which is the main end at which the conscience aimeth, in witnessing and sealing unto us all the former comforts. For therefore the conscience giveth unto us that comfortable testimony, that we are delivered out of the hands of all our spiritual 3enemies, to the end that we should not still serve them, but worship our Lord and Redeemer, in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our lives; that he hath bought us at so dear a price, that we should glorify him 4