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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 That though a godly life is not the cause, yet it is the way to everlasting happiness.
§. Sect. 5 That though a godly life is not the cause, yet it is the way to euerlasting happinesse.
Finally, a godly life, though it do not merit everlasting happiness, with which it holdeth no proportion, yet it is the way that leadeth us thereunto, 1in which, whoso travail, shall at the end of their journey surely attain to eternal blessedness. And they who neglect it, being quite out of the way, can never come unto that place of joy: For without holiness we shall never see God. If we have not our part in the first resurrection to newness of life, we shall have no part in the second, to glory and immortality, but living and dying dead in sin, the second death also will seize upon us. And if we walk not in this subordinate way of holiness and righteousness, which leadeth to life and happiness, we can have no part in the 2chief and principal way Jesus Christ, without whom there is no salvation: 3For as many as are in Christ, are new creatures; They that are Christs, have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts; They that are baptized into him, 4are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from 5