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

And as it is profitable to all others; so most of all unto our selves. For it replenisheth our hearts with all sound joy and true comfort, as it is an infallible sign of all good in us, and belonging unto us, of all grace in this life, and glory and happiness in the life to come. For hereby we are assured that God loveth us, and hath sent his holy Spirit to dwell in us: If we love one another (saith the Apostle) God dwelleth in us, and his love ¹is perfect in us. Hereby we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. It is an undoubted sign, which assureth us of our regeneration and new-birth. Let us love one another: for love is of God: and every one that loveth, is borne of God. Of our illumination by the Spirit, and of saving knowledge: for every one that loveth, is borne of God, and knoweth God, as it followeth in the same place. And again; He that ²loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him. It assureth us of faith; for faith worketh by love, as the Apostle ³speaketh; and that by it we are truly justified before God: for if we be so charitable, as to forgive men their trespasses, then hath the Lord promised ⁴