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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.
CAP. XII.
Of the duties required in the sixth Commandment.
Of the duties required in the sixth Commandement.
§. Sect. 1 Of the sum of this Commandment: And of anger and hatred.
§. Sect. 1 Of the summe of this Commandement: And of anger and hatred.
IN the four following Commandments are all those common virtues and duties required, which concern all our neighbours in general, and all the contrary vices and sins forbidden; all which concern either their person and life, or the adjuncts belonging to them, as their chastity, goods and fame. Those virtues and vices which respect the person and life, are enjoined or forbidden in the sixth Commandment, in these words, Thou shalt not kill; which hath precedency before the other, because the person and life are of greater worth and excellency then the adjuncts that appertain unto them. The sum whereof is this, that we in all our thoughts, words, and deeds, embrace all virtues, and perform all duties which tend to the good of the person, and preservation of the life, both of our neighbours and our selves, and flee the contrary vices and sins, whether they be inward or outward. And these are either the roots and fountains from whence the rest do spring and flow; as anger and hatred; or the fruits and streams which arise and issue from them. The first duty commanded, is just anger against the sins of our neighbours and our