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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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§. Sect. 4 That in a godly life we must join together the duties of piety, righteousness, and sobriety.
§. Sect. 4 That in a godly life we must ioyne together the duties of piety, righteousnesse, and sobriety.
Now the duties of a godly life, which the Law requireth, respect either God or men: both which are to be considered, first generally, as they are to be performed of every Christian in the whole course of their lives; and secondly, as they are to be exercised in them every day. The duties which respect God, are contained in the first Table, and are all comprehended under the name of piety. The duties which concern men, are comprehended in the second Table, and are either the duties of righteousness and mercy, which respect our neighbours, or the duties of temperance and sobriety belonging to our own persons. All which must go together, ⟨p. 95⟩and may in no wise be severed the one from the other. For piety is the root of righteousness and sobriety, and these the fruits and signs of piety, and neither of both are accepted of God, but when they go together, seeing piety without righteousness, is like a foundation without a building; and righteousness without piety, is like a building without a foundation; that, as a fire without light; this, like the fools fire, a light without heat; that alone, at the best, makes but hypocrites; this without that, no better then proud Justiciaries and civill worldlings. And hereof it is, that the holy Ghost in the Scriptures joineth them altogether, requiring no less the one then the other. So he saith, that those who are the redeemed of the Lord, shall worship him in holiness and righteousness before 1him, all the days of their lives; that we must pray for Kings, and all that