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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. 6 That a good conscience knoweth it self to be so.
§. Sect. 6 That a good conscience knoweth it selfe to be so.
Thirdly, it is the property of a good conscience, not to be doubtful and wavering, whether it be so or no, but being so, it knoweth assuredly 1that it is so, and seeth it self by its own light: According to that of the Apostle, We trust, or are assured that we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. And this confidence of it self, maketh it confident and courageous against all dangers, and bearing witness to us that God is 2with us, it maketh us not to care greatly who oppose against us. So the Wise man saith, that the righteous man is bold as a Lyon, because his conscience justifying him, doth also bear witness that he is justified and approved 3of God, and being in his favour, is under his protection, who is both able and willing to preserve him against all evil; according to that of the Apostle; Hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our 4hearts before him. For if our heart (that is, our conscience) condemn us, God is greater then our heart, and knoweth all things; but if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence towards God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his Commandment, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. Neither doth the true fear of God, which is always