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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. 5 Of piety, comprising in it all duties of Gods service.
§. Sect. 5 Of piety, comprising in it all duties of Gods seruice.
The first and main duties required unto a godly life, are all comprehended under the name of piety, required in the first Table. Which is 1nothing else, but that true Religion, whereby we worship the only true God, according to his will revealed unto us. So Augustine, What is piety, but to serve God with a pure mind? which is otherwise called worship. And again, this is piety to love God freely and absolutely, and out of him to expect no reward, but what is expected from him. For he is the chief Goodness: and what thing of worth can he ask of God, to whom God seemeth of little worth? So that piety consisteth in Gods true service, and in the performance of those holy duties of his worship which he requireth in the first Table: of which, piety is the sum, according to that of our Saviour, repeated out of the Law, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, & him only shalt thou serve. The which is sometime signified by the fear of God, a part of divine worship being put for the whole, Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his Name. And sometime by the love of God, which is put for all worship, because all holy service and true obedience doth flow from it. So Moses in his repetition of the Law, makes this the sum of all: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, & with 2all thy soul, and with all thy might. And our Saviour Christ telleth the Lawyer, that this is the great Commandment, which comprehendeth in it the whole first Table; Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart,