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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.
CAP. VII.
Of the duties which are required in the second Commandment, as Prayer, hearing the Word, and administration of the Sacraments.
Of the duties which are required in the second Commandement, as Prayer, hearing the Word, and administration of the Sacraments.
§. Sect. 1 Of the things generally required in the second Commandment.
§. Sect. 1 Of the things generally required in the second Commandement.
WE have showed that the first Commandment requireth, that we serve and worship Jehovah, the only true God. In the three other Commandments of the first Table, is showed how he is to be worshipped, and the time when. The manner of his worship is, how he is to be served in his solemn and set service, required in the second Commandment, or how he is to be glorified at all times in the whole course of our lives in the third. The time when he is principally to be worshipped, is upon his Sabbaths, required in the fourth Commandment. In the second Commandment, God requireth that we worship him the true God, after a right and lawful manner, and by such means as are agreeable to his nature, and which in his Word he hath prescribed unto us, unto which we ought not to add, from which we ought not to detract any thing, as hath before been showed. For this is our reasonable service, to worship so great a God, not after our own phantasies, but according