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

§. Sect. 2 That no time is exempted from Gods service, proved first by testimonies of Scripture.

§. Sect. 2 That no time is exempted from Gods seruice, prooued first by testimonies of Scripture.

In which general sense if we take the service of God, and thus largely with these references, understand the Christian duties of a godly life, then is there no day, hour, or minute, wherein we are not to be exercised in some of them. And this appeareth both by testimonies of Scriptures and firm reasons. The Scriptures require that our whole lives be spent in the service of God, and that we daily perform unto him the duties of holiness, righteousness, and sobriety. So the Apostle would have us to walk daily, according as God hath directed us, and make his Word the rule of our conversation, from which we must never swerve, neither on the right ¹hand nor on the left; and to keep a continual watch over our selves, lest there be at any time in any of us an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the ²living God; and to exhort one another daily, whilst it is called to day, lest any of us should be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. The Apostle Peter persuadeth us to pass the whole time of our sojourning here in the ⟨p. 165⟩³fear of God, and not some part of it only, which we can best spare, and that we live no longer, the rest of our time in the flesh, according to the lusts of ⁴men, but the will of God, seeing the time past of our lives may be enough, yea far too much, to have walked and wrought after the will of the Gentiles. The ⁵