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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. 6 The last reason taken from the uncertainty of our lives.
§. Sect. 6 The last reason taken from the vncertainty of our liues.
The last reason to move us unto the continual and daily exercise of Christian duties, is taken from the uncertainty of our lives, and 1when by death we shall be called to Judgement; For seeing we know not at what time our Master will come, it shall be our wisdom to keep our accounts always even, that we may be ready at all times without fear, to yield up our reckonings; and to carry our selves continually, like wise and faithful servants, in the exercise of holy, righteous, and Christian duties, that so we may be blessed, when our Lord coming upon the sudden, shall find us so doing: and because we are uncertain when the Bridegroom will come; let us, like the five wise Virgins, 2have our lamps and oil of faith, and lights of a godly life always prepared, that so we may enter with him into the marriage Chamber of heavenly happiness, and there eternally solace our selves in the fruition of his love; lest coming upon the sudden, in an hour that we think not, 3and taking us unprovided, without the lamp of profession, or the oil of grace, or the light of an holy conversation; either hunting after worldly profits and preferments by unlawful means, or with immoderate desires, or wallowing our selves in fleshly delights, he shut us out of doors, and utterly exclude us from having any communion, or interest with him in those heavenly joys.