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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. 4 That every several part of this Armour bringeth special profit.
§. Sect. 4 That euery seuerall part of this Armour bringeth speciall profit.
And as the whole Armour in general bringeth unto us singular profit; so every several piece and part of it is for special use and benefit. For by the girdle of verity, we shall be preserved against all errors and heresies, and keep a right course in the way of truth; and our hearts being upright and sincere in the sight of God, we shall carry our selves as in his sight and presence, in all our thoughts, words, and actions, and be kept safe from being soured with the leaven of hypocrisy; from lameness, which causeth us to halt between God and the world, and from guile and dissimulation, the poison of the soul, which tainteth and infecteth all virtuous actions. By the breastplate of righteousness, whereby we desire, resolve, and endeavour to do Gods will, and please him in all things, our vital parts will be preserved from being wounded with the poisonous darts of the devil; and howsoever with his tentations he may make us slip through frailty and infirmity, and with his hellish darts, inflict some little scratches in the more remote and ignoble parts, yet he shall not be able to pierce our hearts and vital parts, with any mortal wounds of sin, because they are strongly armed with this breast-plate of righteousness. By having our feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace, we shall be enabled to continue our march in the Christian warfare, and so prepared against all afflictions and troubles, which like thorns and briers molest us in our journey, that we shall not be discouraged, nor faint in the way; but by that inward peace which the Gospel bringeth unto us, we ⟨p. 200⟩shall be confirmed and comforted in the middest of all worldly garboils and troubles. By the shield of faith we shall repel the fiery darts of Satan's 1tentations, and resist and beat him back when he assaulteth us with greatest fury; we shall also thereby overcome the world, on the one side