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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 duties of superiors in excellency, and of inferiors towards them.
§. Sect. 2 Of the duties of superiours in excellency, and of inferiours towards them.
The special duties respect the divers sorts of superiors and inferiors. For men are superior unto others, either in excellency only, or in authority ⟨p. 145⟩also and government. In excellency, as first, those who are endued with better gifts, whether inward or outward; Inward, as the gifts of the mind, to wit, virtue, wisdom, learning, arts, and sciences; whose duty is, that acknowledging them as talents lent unto them by God, of which 1they must give an account; they be not puffed up in pride because they excel others, but rather be the more humble, in respect of that straight reckoning which shall be required of them; and also, that with all care and good conscience they employ these gifts principally to the glory of God 2that gave them, and in the next place, to the good of their neighbours, and furthering of their own salvation. The duties of inferiors, are first, to acknowledge their gifts, to the glory of God, and praising his bounty and goodness towards them. Secondly, to reverence and respect the party endued with them, and to seek to be profited by them, as our need requireth, and opportunity is offered. Superiors in outward gifts and place, are first the aged, whose duties are to be in all their carriage 3and behaviour grave and sober, to counsel and instruct the younger out of their greater wisdom and experience, and to be examples and precedents unto them of all good duties. And the duties of the