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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. 4 The manifold benefits which would arise from the daily renewing of our faith.
But that we may be the better persuaded unto this daily exercise of renewing our faith; let us consider more particularly the manifold and inestimable benefits which would thereby accrue unto us. For first, we shall live in covenant with God, have assured title and interest unto all his promises, without any intercession or intermission of our comfort and hope, ⟨p. 180⟩seeing God requireth of us no other condition. Secondly, we shall no longer live the life of the flesh and corrupted nature, but the life of faith, 1which is principally sustained by God, and holdeth dependency, not on earthly things, but chiefly on his Word and promise, which can never fail; and the life of Christ, subjecting our selves in all things to the regiment and government of his holy Spirit; so as we may say with the Apostle, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the 2flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me; which life of grace certainly assureth us of the life of glory. Thirdly, hereof it will follow, that all our thoughts, words, and works, shall be voluntarily subjected to the good will and pleasure of God, and being daily in covenant with God, we shall, by virtue of his Spirit assisting us, keep all our faculties and functions, senses, and actions, in covenant with 3