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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 the sanctifying of Gods name in lawful oaths.
§. Sect. 2 Of the sanctifying of Gods name in lawfull oathes.
More especially, there is required in this Commandment, that we glorify and sanctify Gods name by our oaths and vows. First, by our oaths, 1unto which is required, first, that we honour Gods name, in swearing by it upon a just and necessary occasion, acknowledging thereby Gods infinite wisdom, from which nothing can lie hid; his Truth, which abhorreth all lies and falsehoods; his Justice, which when he is called to be a witness and Judge, will neither suffer truth and innocency to go unrewarded, nor untruth and guiltiness unpunished without respect of persons. Secondly, that we swear only by the name of God, either directly 2or indirectly, and by no creature in heaven or earth. Thirdly, that we swear after a lawful manner, unto which is required that we swear in truth, that is, to that which is true, and truly, according to the persuasion 3of our minds; In righteousness, binding our selves thereby only unto things lawful; and in judgement, whereby we discern the necessity of it, in regard that we can no otherwise clear the truth, nor be believed in a ⟨p. 131⟩matter of importance, which much respecteth Gods glory, or our own or neighbours good. And so come to the performance of this high and holy action with all reverence as in Gods presence, duly weighing and considering the conditions and circumstances of our oath, according to the Scriptures. Lastly, that we swear unto a right end, namely, to the glory