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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. 9 That the duties of a godly life must spring from the fountain of love.
§. Sect. 9 That the duties of a godly life must spring from the fountaine of loue.
The fifth thing required is, that all the duties of a godly life which we perform, do spring from the fountain of love, which is a fruit of a ⟨p. 11⟩lively faith, whereby being assured of Gods love towards us in Jesus Christ, we begin to love him again, and our neighbours for his sake; and receiving the bright beams of his favour into our hearts, have them enlightened and warmed thereby, and so reflect them back again towards God, in our love of his Majesty and zeal of his glory, abhorring whatsoever is displeasing, and loving and practising that which is acceptable in his 1sight. For this love is the end of Gods commandments, and compriseth in it the whole sum and substance of the Law, and therefore it is the base and foundation of all true obedience; and whatsoever proceedeth not from love, cannot be accounted any service unto God, seeing it is not done for his sake, but out of self-love, and for worldly respects, which being sinful and corrupt, do pollute all the actions which do spring from them.
The fifth thing required is, that all the duties of a godly life which we performe, doe spring from the fountaine of loue, which is a fruit of a ⟨p. 11⟩liuely faith, wherby being assured of Gods loue towards vs in Iesus Christ, we begin to loue him againe, and our neighbours for his sake; and receiuing the bright beames of his fauour into our hearts, haue them illightened and warmed thereby, and so reflect them backe againe towards God, in our loue of his Maiesty and zeale of his glory, abhorring whatsoeuer is displeasing, and louing and practising that which is acceptable in his