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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
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299 4 That it is pleasant, profitable and necessary, to spend our solitary hours in Christian duties. 300 CAP. XXVI•. What duties we ought to perform when we are in company. 302 Sect. 1 That civill conversation excelleth solitariness. 302 2 That we must not rashly rush into all companies, but with good choice and advice, and also with due preparation. 304 3 That our whole carriage and conversation must be religious, civill and honest. 306 4 How we must carry our selves in the company of those which are worldly and wicked. 307 CAP. XXVII•. Of Christian conferences, which we must use when we are in company, for our mutual good. 309 ⟨image 11⟩Sect. 1. That our speeches must be gracious and prudent. 309 2 Of Christian admonition, and what is required to the right performance of this duty. 310 3 That we may lawfully confer of moral and civill things. 314 4 That we must carefully avoid all corrupt communication. 314 CAP. XX••. Of Christian prudence, which we are to use in all our conferences. 315 Sect. 1. How we must carry our selves when we confer with those that excel us in gifts. 315 2 How we must behave our selves when as we confer with civill worldlings. 317 3 How we must deal with them that are openly profane. 318 4 Of the manifold and dangerous abuses of conferences in these days; and the causes of them. 319 5 That Christian and religious conferences are exceeding profitable. 320 CAP. XXX. Of those duties which concern our works and actions one with another, both out of contracts, and in our buying and selling. 321 Sect. 1. That we must labour both to do, and receive all the good we can, in our dealings with others. 321 2 That we must take all occasions of gaining others to Christ. 322 3 That in all our dealings and bargainings we must carry our selves uprightly and honestly. 323 4 That we must sell only things saleable. 324 5 That we must set and sell our wares at an equal price. 325 6 That in buying and selling, all fraud and deceit must be avoided. 326 7 How to avoid the faults commonly committed between buyers and sellers. 327 CAP. XXXI. That Governors of Families ought to train up those who are under their charge, in the duties of godliness. 328 Sect. 1. That it is not enough for Governors to be themselves religious; but they must also train up those who are under their government, in the knowledge and practice of Religion.