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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. 2 Of the daily renewing of our repentance. First, by recalling our sins to remembrance; And secondly, by humbling our selves before God in the sight and sense of them.
§. Sect. 2 Of the daily renewing of our repentance. First, by recalling our sinnes to remembrance; And secondly, by humbling our selues before God in the sight and sense of them.
Now the principal means of renewing and confirming this covenant of grace, is, daily to renew the condition on our part, which is a lively faith, approved by the fruits of it in unfeigned repentance. The which latter, because it is the infallible sign and touch stone of the former, and the outward and sensible fruit, which assureth us of the hidden root, that it liveth and groweth, I will in the first place speak of our daily exercise in renewing of our repentance; unto which is required, first, that we call to our remembrance our former sins, together with the cursed root of original corruption from which they spring; but especially the sins, frailties and falls, which have overtaken us since the last time that we performed this exercise, to which purpose it behoveth us to keep a strict and narrow watch over all our thoughts, words and works, that these spiritual enemies of our souls may not slyly pass by, or secretly lurk in us unespied, and consequently unrepented of; and also to take special mark of them, that they do not slip out of our mind and memory. For which end we must look our selves often in the glass of Gods Law, & examine our lives by this rule, that so we may take notice of our spiritual spots and deformities, of our errors and averseness to good, & proneness to evil, and so bring them into the Court of conscience, that being thereby, in the presence of God our supreme Judge, accused & condemned, our hearts may be smitten with godly sorrow in the sight and sense of them, and affected with a loathing and mislike of our former evil proceedings; according to the practice of the faithful, foretold by the Prophet: Then 1shall ye (saith he) remember your former evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loath your selves in your own sight, for your iniquities, and for your abominations. The neglect of which duty is reproved and condemned in the people of the Jews: I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright,