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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 the duties of our callings must proceed from Love.
§ Sect. 4 That the duties of our callings must proceede from Loue.
Secondly, the duties of our callings must proceed out of unfeigned love towards God and our neighbours, which is the fountain of all true obedience, and not principally from self-love or love of the world, which being poisonous roots of all sin, will taint all our works and actions which spring from them. They must arise from the love of God, which moveth those in whom it is, to consecrate wholly unto him their lives and labours, in all things desiring to serve him, who so loveth us, and whom we so love, both in the immediate duties of his worship, and also in the ordinary duties of our callings. And this is done, when as we labour in them, not first and chiefly for worldly gain and advantage, thereby to please our selves; but in obedience to Gods Commandment, who requireth these duties of us, studying in all things to please him, and that our actions both for the matter and manner may be approved and accepted in his sight. Secondly, we must perform the duties of our callings out of love towards our neighbours, seeking in them their good 1as well as our own, seeing true charity seeketh not her own, but ⟨p. 246⟩is also serviceable unto others: which if we do, then will we not wrong them, to benefit our selves, nor gain by their loss; we will not deprive them of some great good, to get unto our selves some small advantage; neither will we be so wholly intent and greedily gripple in following our own business, but that we will spare them some of our time, and afford them our best help, when their necessity shall require our assistance, and reason, charity and conscience shall bind us to afford it.