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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
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§. Sect. 9 What is required in this Commandment, to wit, original righteousness, and spiritual Concupiscence.
§. Sect. 9 What is required in this Commandement, to wit, originall righteousnesse, and spirituall Concupiscence.
IN the former Commandments, as we have showed, the Lord forbiddeth all external sins both in word and deed, together with 1the internal sins of the heart committed against our neighbours, which are joined with consent of the will, and commandeth the contrary virtues: and now in the tenth and last Commandment, that he might show his Law to be spiritual, and of such large extent, that nothing, no not the least motions or first thoughts are exempted, and out of the reach of it, he requireth the inward purity of the mind and imaginations, thoughts and intentions, heart and affections; and the rectitude, orderly and just government of them all for our own and our neighbours good: and contrariwise condemneth and forbiddeth, ⟨p. 161⟩not only those gross kinds of concupiscence and lusts of the flesh, 2which are joined with consent of will, but even the first and least motions of evil concupiscence, which go before consent, which are the roots, seeds, and fountains of all other sins, as all evil thoughts, inclinations and desires which are repugnant with charity; yet thought of most, to be no sins, and free from the censure of law, the which the Papists do stiffly defend, making this concupiscence and lust after baptism to be no sin. Now this purity of mind and heart here required, consisteth of two parts, original righteousness, and perfect love of our neighbours and our selves, and the concupiscence of the Spirit. Original righteousness, is both a cleanness from all unrighteousness, and evil concupiscence against our neighbours, and a disposition and proneness to all the duties of charity; the which righteousness, the Lord having in our first creation planted in our natures, doth justly require it of us in his Law, though by our fall in the loins of our first parents we have lost it, and can never attain unto it in any perfection. Yea, he doth it not only in justice towards all, but also in mercy towards his elect, to this end, that seeing hereby their unrighteousness, corruption and misery in themselves, they might be forced to renounce themselves and their own righteousness, and flee unto Christ, that both they might be clothed with his righteousness, and by his Spirit be renewed according to his Image,