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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

Name: A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the duties
Author: John Downame

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.

John Downame d. 1652London: printed by Felix Kingstone and William Stansby for Ed, 1622

[36], 734, 733-925, 956-961, [3]; [16], 103, [1] p. · 643k words · STC 7143 · ESTC S121690

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Book 1 › Chapter 17 › Section 4: §. Sect. 4 That the exercises of repentance are notable means to get a good conscience…Book 1 › Chapter 17 › Section 4: §. Sect. 4 That the exercises of repentance are notable meanes to get a good conscience…

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§. Sect. 4 That the exercises of repentance are notable means to get a good conscience, & also the love of God and our neighbours.

§. Sect. 4 That the exercises of repentance are notable meanes to get a good conscience, & also the loue of God and our neighbours.

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Fourthly, the exercises of repentance are notable means to work peace of conscience; as our often humbling of our selves before God in ¹the sight and sense of our vileness and unworthiness, whereby our stony hearts are broken, and our spirits made contrite; our daily confession of our sins unto God, and earnest craving of pardon for them, seeing our faith will assure us, and answerably our consciences will witness with us, according to the rule of Gods Word, that humbling our selves, we shall be exalted; that being empty of all grace and goodness, and hungering after it, we shall be filled and satisfied; that the God of peace will dwell with us, and bring his peace unto us, being of broken hearts and contrite spirits: and finally, that confessing and forsaking our sins, we shall find mercy, seeing it standeth upon the truth of Gods promise, according to that of the Apostle, If we acknowledge and confess our sins, he is ²faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Of which we have experience in the example of David, who being afflicted in the sight and sense of his sin, with terrors of conscience, used this means to quiet it and get peace, I acknowledge (saith he) my sin ³

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Author

John Downame d. 1652

Place

London

Printer

Felix Kingstone and William Stansby

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Year

1622

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[36], 734, 733-925, 956-961, [3]; [16], 103, [1] p.

Words

642,545

Catalogue

STC 7143 · ESTC S121690

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EEBO-TCP A20762

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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

§. Sect. 4 That the exercises of repentance are notable means to get a good conscience, & also the love of God and our neighbours.

§. Sect. 4 That the exercises of repentance are notable meanes to get a good conscience, & also the loue of God and our neighbours.

§. Sect. 5 Of the means whereby a good conscience may be preserved.

§. Sect. 5 Of the meanes whereby a good conscience may be preserued.

THE SECOND BOOK OF A GODLY LIFE, CONTAINING THE MAINE PARTS and principal duties of it, which we ought generally to perform at all times, and upon all good occasions.

THE SECOND BOOKE OF A GODLY LIFE, CONTAINING THE MAINE PARTS and principall duties of it, which we ought generally to performe at all times, and vpon all good occasions.

CAP. I.

§. Sect. 1 That a godly life consisteth in doing all those duties which God hath commanded.

§. Sect. 2 That a godly life consisteth in evangelical obedience, both in forsaking that evil which God forbiddeth, and in doing that good which he commandeth.

§. Sect. 2 That a godly life consisteth in euangelicall obedience, both in forsaking that euill which God forbiddeth, and in doing that good which he commandeth.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

§. Sect. 4 That the exercises of repentance are notable means to get a good conscience, & also the love of God and our neighbours.

§. Sect. 4 That the exercises of repentance are notable meanes to get a good conscience, & also the loue of God and our neighbours.

§. Sect. 5 Of the means whereby a good conscience may be preserved.

§. Sect. 5 Of the meanes whereby a good conscience may be preserued.

THE SECOND BOOK OF A GODLY LIFE, CONTAINING THE MAINE PARTS and principal duties of it, which we ought generally to perform at all times, and upon all good occasions.

THE SECOND BOOKE OF A GODLY LIFE, CONTAINING THE MAINE PARTS and principall duties of it, which we ought generally to performe at all times, and vpon all good occasions.

CAP. I.

§. Sect. 1 That a godly life consisteth in doing all those duties which God hath commanded.

§. Sect. 2 That a godly life consisteth in evangelical obedience, both in forsaking that evil which God forbiddeth, and in doing that good which he commandeth.

§. Sect. 2 That a godly life consisteth in euangelicall obedience, both in forsaking that euill which God forbiddeth, and in doing that good which he commandeth.

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