A godly boke wherein is contayned certayne fruitefull, godlye, and necessarye rules, to bee exercised [et] put in practise by all Christes souldiers lyuynge in the campe of this worlde

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A godly boke wherein is contayned certayne fruitefull, godlye, and necessarye rules, to bee exercised [et] put in practise by all Christes souldiers lyuynge in the campe of this worlde

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[Imprynted at London :: By VVyllyam Seres dvvellynge at the vveste ende of Paules Churche, at the sygne of the Hedgehogge],

1561 Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.

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Christian life -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• ¶ IOHN GOVVGHE PASTOR to the Paryshe of Sayncte Peters in Cornebull of London, to the Christian Reader.
• Certayne holsome, godly, and necessary Rules.
  • Of the armour fyt for a christi∣an souldiour.
  • The hedde of all wysdome is to know your selfe, & of the two maner of wisdoms heuenly & worldly, the one true & the other immagined.
  • Of the exterior man and the interior.
  • ¶ Of the thre partes in man the spiryte, the sowle, and the fleshe.
  • Certaine generall rules of trewe christianitye.
  • ¶ The fyrst rule of Faythe.
  • ¶ The seconde Rule not to enter the way of saluation slouth fully or fearefully.
  • ¶ The thirde Rule prouethe that the waie of Christe is most profitable, besides that it onely leadeth to felicitie.
  • ¶ The fowrth Rule is that in all oure acts and order of oure li∣uynge, we prefyxe Christ as the onely marcke wherat we shote.
  • ¶ The fyfte Rule to know perfyt and trewe deuocion from vaine and fayned.
  • ¶ The syxte Rule that we oughte onely to followe the doctryne of Christ, and not to cleue to the more number.
  • ¶ Opynions mete and conueni∣ent for a christen man.
  • ¶ The. vii. Rule howe to labour to obteyne that whiche is ne∣rest to a spirituall lyfe.
  • ¶ The eight Rule howe to resist temptacions.
  • ¶ The. ix. Rule to geue deli gent hede to the assault of oure enemies.
  • ¶ The. x. rule is to hate those oure ennemies.
  • ¶ The. xi. rule is what we should do in the time of temptacion, and what after the temp tacion ouercome.
  • ¶ The. xii. rule howe to ouercome our spyrituall enemy with hys owne weapon.
  • ¶ The. xiii. Rule howe we ought both to fyghte manfully, and the feld ouercom alwaies ready to resist the nexte onset of our enemy.
  • ¶ The. xiiii. Rule howe we oughte to hate al sinnes seme it neuer so smal.
  • ¶ The. xv. rule is how we should behaue oure selues, if wee chaunce in this fyght be ouercom of the deuil.
  • ¶ The. xvi. ruleis of sondry reme dies against temptacions.
  • ¶ The. xvii. Rule howe greate a helpe to resyste synne, is to re∣member howe detestable a thinge synne is.
  • ¶ The. xviii. Rule to auoyde sin, by and by, comparing the. ii. heades together, videlicet God and the deuyll.
  • ¶ The. xix. Rule for the absteining from synne is to haue in oure remembraunce the myse∣ryes of thys worlde.
  • ¶ The. xx. Rule to beware of Impenytencye.
  • ¶ Here folowith certaine speciall remedies, against certaine spe∣ciall vices and sinnes, and first against Lechery.
  • ¶ A remedy against the mo∣cion of Auarice.
  • ¶ A remedy againste the sinne Ambicion, and desyre of honoure.
  • ¶ A Remedy agaynst the sinne of Pryde and Disdaine.
  • ¶ A remedy againste the sinne of Anger and desyre of reuengeaunce.
• colophon