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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. 6 That we must labour daily to have our communion with God increased.
§. Sect. 6 That we must labour daily to haue our communion with God increased.
The fifth special duty required unto our daily seeking of God, is, that we labour more and more to have our sweet communion with him increased, and the comfortable fellowship of his holy Spirit dwelling in our hearts, sealed and assured unto us. To which end it must be our daily exercise, to purge and purify them by faith from all noisome corruptions and sinful thoughts, that they may be fit temples and habitations for this pure and holy Spirit to dwell in; and to deck and adorn them with sanctifying graces, which will cause him to keep his residence in us with cheerfulness and delight: we must also submit our selves to be ruled by him, and not quench any good motion which he suggesteth, either by rebellious and flat denials, or by vain excuses and sluggish delays, but presently put the duties in practice unto which he moveth us, and open the door of our hearts at his first knock and call, that he 1may come in, and supping with us, feast us with a most delicious banquet of Spiritual refections; lest putting off his kind offers with slothful 2excuses (like the Spouse in the Canticles) we move him to depart, and hide from us his gracious presence, and so move us by a sorrowful and painful search, before we can recover and find him, to make more precious account of his company when we do again enjoy it. We must be careful to preserve our peace with him, if we would enjoy his company; for as the Prophet speaketh, How can two walk together, except they 3be agreed? To which end we must often renew our faith, and after any slip or infirmity, rely upon the mediation of our Saviour Christ for our ⟨p. 189⟩