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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. 5 Of divers other benefits which follow the daily renewing of our faith.
§. Sect. 5 Of diuers other benefits which follow the daily renewing of our faith.
Fifthly, the daily renewing of our faith, is the most effectual means of our unfeigned repentance; For what can be so powerful an argument to make us mourn for our sins with bitter grief, as with the eye of faith to look upon him whom by our sins we have pierced, and through the wound in his side, to see his heart so replenished with divine love, and as it were, supplying the place of that blood and water that issued out of it? and what can make us more hate sin, or to resolve to please God in all holy and righteous duties, then believing that the Lord being so infinitely just, and abhorring sin with such implacable hatred, that he spared not his only begotten and most dearly beloved Son, but when he bore our sins, caused him to bear also our griefs and sorrows, wounded him for our transgressions, and bruised him with the pains of death, and fearful burden of his wrath for our iniquities; to believe also that he is towards us, so infinitely merciful, that he gave his Son to us, and for us to suffer all these torments for a time, that we might not suffer them for ever; that he wounded him for our transgressions, that we might be healed by his hurts, cleansed and purified from the guilt, punishment and corruption of all our sins with the streams of his blood, acquitted by his condemnation, and revived by his death? For who is so audaciously desperate, as to dare by voluntary sinning provoke such a Justice? who is so hard-hearted and ungrateful, as would be enticed with the baits of worldly vanities, to neglect in any thing to please so infinite a goodness? So what can more powerfully move us to flee all sin, and to practise with all diligence all Christian duties of holiness and righteousness, then by faith not only to enjoy Gods present blessings in their own worth and excellency, but as earnest pennies and first fruits, pledges and pawns of heavenly and eternal reward, wherewith God of his free grace hath promised to crown all our labours and