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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. 4 Of the sanctifying Gods Sabbath, and what things are required unto it.
§. Sect. 4 Of the sanctifying Gods Sabbath, and what things are required vnto it.
In the fourth Commandment, the Lord appointeth a special time, wherein all the former duties both public and private, are principally to be performed, which whosoever do neglect, they manifestly show that they are destitute of the power of all true Religion. The main duty required, is, that we remember to sanctify the Sabbath: In which two ⟨p. 132⟩things are to be considered: 1. that we must sanctify the Sabbath: 2. that we must remember to do it, that is, be mindful and careful to sanctify it. To the sanctification of the Sabbath two things are required: First, the rest. Secondly, the sanctifying of it. The rest consisteth partly in an outward rest from bodily labours and worldly affairs, and in our inward resting from the servile works of sin. The works from which we must rest, are bodily labours, and all worldly employments, so far forth as they are distractions and hinderances to the spiritual Sanctification of the Sabbath; As buying and selling, all manner of works of our ordinary callings, travailing, feasting of friends with meats not easily cooked, and such like. For all kinds of bodily labours on the Lords day are unlawful, 1except they be referred to the sanctification of the Sabbath, as the means of it, of which sort are the labours of the Minister in the duties appertaining to his ministry; and of the people travailing to the places of Gods worship. Or secondly, the works of mercy, which are duties of the Sabbath, 2