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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. 7 Of external worship with our bodies.
§. Sect. 7 Of externall worship with our bodies.
And thus much concerning those virtues whereby we have God inwardly in our hearts. Besides which, there is also required, that we have him outwardly in our bodies and external actions; and that is, when as with the outward man we serve and worship him. The which also we owe unto God, seeing he hath created and redeemed both our 1souls and bodies, that we should in both perform service unto him. And though alone it be of small value, for as the Apostle saith, Bodily 2exercise profiteth nothing, yet doth the Lord require it with the other, and that with the sweet incense of the heart and mind, we offer 3our bodies also a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto him: which Daniel thought to be a matter of such moment, that he chose rather to 4be cast into the Lyons den, then to neglect it for the space of a few days. Our Saviour also requireth, not only that we have in us the heat of spiritual graces, but that also that we cause their light to shine out before men, that they seeing our good works, may glorify our Father 5which is in heaven. For as natural fire doth retain its virtue and strength, when as it hath some outward vent, and when that is stopped, is choked and presently dies; so do our inward graces and virtues live and flourish, when they have the outward vent of corporal obedience,