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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 What it is to seek God.
§. Sect. 2 What it is to seeke God.
Let us then make it our daily exercise to seek the Lord our God, whom to find, and to be happy and blessed, is all one, and whom to miss and lose, is to be miserable and accursed, though we should gain and enjoy the whole world, and all the happiness which it can offer unto us. And to this end, let us consider what it is to seek God, so as we may be sure to find him. Secondly, the manner and properties of this seeking. Thirdly, the inestimable benefits which accrue unto them who daily seek and find him. And lastly, the evils, miseries, and mischiefs, which befall all those that neglect this holy duty. For the first; to seek God, is to labour daily in and through Christ, to recover and make him our own, whom we have lost through the fall of Adam, and our own original 1corruption and actual transgressions, that being reconciled and reunited unto him, and so becoming one with him, and he with us, we may be 2happy and blessed in his fruition. For in and through Christ alone, God is to be sought of us; and by him and no other possible means can we ever find him; in him only Gods Justice is satisfied, and wrath appeased; in him, as our alone propitiatory sacrifice, he is well-pleased, and being reconciled 3in the body of his flesh through death, of a severe Judge and terrible enemy, he is become our gracious Father and chiefest friend. And so perfectly hath he made our peace through the blood of his Cross, that he hath left 4