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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 That a godly life, chiefly consisteth in Evangelical and filial obedience, and what this is.
§. Sect. 2 That a godly life, chiefely consisteth in Euangelicall and filiall obedience, and what this is.
And in this filial obedience doth that godly life principally consist, which we now entreat of: for it is nothing else but a fervent desire, sound resolution, and sincere endeavour, to conform our whole lives in all holy ⟨p. 6⟩obedience to Gods will, that we may please him in all things, and glorify his holy name by our Christian conversation; or if we would have a more full description of it: A godly life is the life of a Christian, who being regenerate, quickened, and illuminated by Gods Spirit, and ingrafted into Christ thereby, and by a lively faith, assuring him of Gods love, and his own salvation, doth in love and thankfulness towards him, desire, resolve, and endeavour to please him in all things, by doing his will revealed in his Word, and to glorify his name, by walking before him, in the duties of holiness, righteousness, and sobriety, with faith; a pure heart, and good conscience all the days of his life. In which description, we are to consider two things. First, the person that leadeth this godly life, and secondly, the actions in this life performed by him; the person is first named, and then described by his state and properties. Concerning the first; he that leadeth this life, is the Christian only. For as for the life of Heathens and Pagans, seem it never so strict, just, and glorious, as of Socrates, Aristides, Cato, Seneca, and such like, it is void of all true godliness, and not accepted of God, because it is joined with ignorance of the true God, and Jesus Christ, idolatry, will-worship, infidelity, and all kind of heathenish impiety.