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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. 2 Of prayer and invocation.
§. Sect. 2 Of prayer and inuocation.
And these are the things which generally are commanded or forbidden in this Commandment. The special duties which are here principally required, are three, Invocation, preaching and hearing the Word, and the administration of the Sacraments. In respect of the first, there is 1first required that we pray, and the neglect hereof condemned. Secondly, that we pray according to Gods will, performing those things therein which in his Word he requireth. And these are either essential unto prayer or accidental. The things essential, respect either the person unto 2whom we must pray, which is God only and no other; or the person in whose name alone we must pray, namely, Jesus Christ, and not in the mediation or intercession of any creature. Thirdly, by whose help, to wit, the holy Ghost, who helpeth our infirmities, and teacheth us to pray as we ought. Fourthly, After what manner, that is, before prayer with due preparation, and in prayer in respect of our souls, that we pray in the 3spirit, and not with the lips alone, nor with wandering thoughts. In our minds, that we pray with understanding, and not in an unknown tongue, nor in ignorance, not conceiving what we utter with our mouths. In our 4hearts, that we pray with reverence in respect of God, and humility in respect of our selves. In our bodies there is required, that we use such voice and gestures, as are most fit to stir up our affections and devotions