A guide to the godly, or, The dayly meditations of Returne Hebdon Gentleman who for his conscience (through the tyrany of the Bishops) suffered many years imprisonment in the Kings-Bench and their remained till death : being very useful for instruction of all those that desire to walke in the paths of Jesus Christ.

The third day of the Week.

1. I Vnderstand that I put on Christ, when be∣ing baptized into his death, I put on his death upon my mortality, to shew it in my sufferings to death, and I put on his immortality upon my mortall mind, and in all things have the mind of Christ to guide me in my life, and to give me to mind onely the things that are a∣bove with him in immortality.

2. I am instructed to put difference between the teaching under the law, and under the au∣thority of Christ: The Law commandeth obe∣dience upon payn of death, saying, thou shalt not do thus or thus; or thou shalt do thus or thus; but Christ saith, thou shalt love the Lord thy God, &c. thou shalt love thy neighbour, &c. so that a man is first taught so truly to know the true God, as to love him, and when he hath obtained this love, then he doth willingly all, whatsoever he hath commanded, and also he rejoyceth in the Law of Christ, which is the bond of per∣fection.