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

Name: A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the duties
Author: John Downame

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.

John Downame d. 1652

London: printed by Felix Kingstone and William Stansby for Ed, 1622

[36], 734, 733-925, 956-961, [3]; [16], 103, [1] p. · 643k words · STC 7143 · ESTC S121690

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John Downame, A guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties (London, 1622). EEBO-TCP A20762.

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Title as printed

Author

John Downame d. 1652

Place

London

Printer

Felix Kingstone and William Stansby

Bookseller

Year

1622

Imprint

Printed at London : By Felix Kingstone [and William Stansby] for Ed: Wever & W: Bladen at the north door of Pauls, [1622]Printed at London : By Felix Kingstone [and William Stansby] for Ed: Weuer & W: Bladen at the north dore of Pauls, [1622]

Size

[36], 734, 733-925, 956-961, [3]; [16], 103, [1] p.

Words

642,545

Catalogue

STC 7143 · ESTC S121690

Text

EEBO-TCP A20762

Notes

The title page is engraved and signed: John Payne sculpsit.The title page is engraved and signed: Iohn Payne sculpsit.
"A treatise of security" has separate pagination, register, and title page with imprint "London printed by William Stansby. 1622"."A treatise of securitie" has separate pagination, register, and title page with imprint "London printed by William Stansby. 1622".
Part 2 identified as STC 7151 on UMI microfilm reel 1572.
Reproductions of the originals in the Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library and Eton College. Library.
Appears at reel 1448 (Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library copy) and at reel 1572 (Eton College. Library and Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library copies).
Reel 1448: print faded; stained and torn, some loss of print; P. 530-9, 664-77, 810-13, and ² 92-99 from Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery copy spliced at end. Reel 1572 position 10: contents pages of pt.2 duplicated at beginning of pt.2; some pages creased, stained, and torn; beginning-(b)2, p. 284-93, 486-503, 600-611, 888-905, 924-² 5 from Cambridge University Library copy spliced at end. Reel 1572 position 11: part 2 only; p. 95-96 torn; p. 90-end from Eton College. Library copy spliced at end.

Licence

CC0 1.0 (TCP transcription); underlying work in the public domain

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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