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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. II.
Of some special duties of a godly life, which are to be performed in our daily exercise: And first, of the renewing of our repentance.
Of some speciall duties of a godly life, which are to bee performed in our daily exercise: And first, of the renewing of our repentance.
§. Sect. 1 Of the daily renewing of our covenant with God, by the renewing of our faith and repentance.
§. Sect. 1 Of the daily renewing of our couenant with God, by the renewing of our faith and repentance.
BY the testimonies and reasons before alleged, we have made it evident, that it is not sufficient to serve God by fits and at sometimes, neglecting his service, and serving the world and our own lusts at another; but that the daily exercise of a godly life, in the continual performance of all Christian duties, is most profitable and necessary. And now it remaineth that we give some directions, for the well-performing of this daily exercise. To which end, we are to know that these duties, wherein we are daily to be exercised, are of two sorts. First, general, which are not only every day necessarily to be in some degree and measure performed, but also to be observed in every part of the day, and in all the particular acts and exercises of it, as occasion serveth. The second more special, and belonging more principally and properly unto the divers parts and several occasions of every day. The former are more internal and spiritual