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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. 7 That unto the seeking of God is required, that we daily renew our repentance.
§. Sect. 7 That vnto the seeking of God is required, that we daily renew our repentance.
Sixthly, to the daily seeking of God, is required, that we daily renew our repentance; for these in the Scriptures are usually joined together, to 1intimate unto us that we then seek God, when as we do unfeignedly repent us of our sins. Thus the Lord promiseth, that if the people of Israel would in their tribulation seek the Lord, with all their heart, and with all their soul, and turn to the Lord their God, and be obedient unto his voice, then they should find him. And that if they should humble themselves and pray, and seek his face, and turn from their evil ways, then he would hear 2from heaven, forgive their sins, and heal their land. So the Prophet Isaiah joineth these together: Seek ye the Lord while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him. Without which unfeigned repentance, we cannot truly be said to seek God, or to have any communion with him; for if we say that we 3have any fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lye, and do not the truth. More especially we must seek the Lord, by humbling our selves in true contrition and sorrow for our sins, which have estranged God from us, and made us lose the sense and assurance of his love and favour. And therefore the Lord exhorteth the meek of the earth to seek him, that they might be hid in the day of his anger: And saith, that Israel and Judah should