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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. 1 Of affiance in God, & wherein it consisteth; and of the reasons which may move us unto it.
§. Sect. 1 Of affiance in God, & wherein it consisteth; and of the reasons which may mooue vs vnto it.
The special duties, whereby we adhere and cleave unto God with all our hearts, are either principal, or those which arise out of them and depend upon them; the chief and principal are affiance, the love and fear of God. By affiance we adhere and cleave unto him, when as knowing, acknowledging, believing, and remembering the omniscience, omnipotence, all sufficiency, trueth, and goodness of God towards us, we do put our trust and affiance in him, for the obtaining of all good, and preservation from all evil, both in the presence and absence of all inferior means. Unto which affiance the Scriptures exhort us. So David, Trust in the Lord, and 1do good. And Solomon, Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not 2to thine own understanding. Which if we perform, we have divers gracious promises made unto us: as first, that we shall be greatly rewarded; Cast not away your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward; and be 3encompassed with all Gods mercies and favours; according to that of the Psalmist, He that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. Secondly, 4that we shall be sustained and preserved by his providence. Cast thy 5