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.

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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.
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Downame, John, d. 1652.
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Printed at London :: By Felix Kingstone [and William Stansby] for Ed: Weuer & W: Bladen at the north dore of Pauls,
[1622]
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Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20762.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.

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§. Sect. 7 Of the persons in Trinity.

And so much concerning Gods attributes, whereby his nature is made knowne vnto vs, that wee may accordingly serue him, and so carry our selues, as that we may bee acceptable in his sight. Now further we must know him in his persons, namely, that howsoeuer he is but one in nature and essence, yet he is distinguished into three persons, the Father, Sonne and holy Ghost. For the better vnderstanding whereof, we are to know, that a person in the deity is a subsistance in the diuine essence, comprehen∣ding the whole diuine nature and essence in it, but distinguished by an in∣communicable

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property from other persons, vnto which it hath relation. Or it is the Godhead restrained or distinguished by his personall proper∣tie. And therefore euery person, containing in it the whole diuine essence, it followeth, that whatsoeuer agreeth absolutely to, or is spoken of the whole diuine nature, in respect of its outward actions and workes towards the creatures, doth alike agree to euery distinct person, and whatsoeuer agreeth to, or is spoken of euery of the persons, that likewise agreeth to the whole diuine nature. And from hence also it followeth, that these three diuine persons, are in glory and all other attributes coequall, and in respect of time coeternal; but yet euery one is distinct frō other, by their personall propertie. So that the diuine nature being considered with the personall property of begetting, is the Father, and not the Sonne, nor holy Spirit; being considered with the personall property of being begotten, is the Sonne, and not the holy Ghost nor Father; and with the personall pro∣perty of proceeding, is the holy Spirit, and neither the Father nor the Sonne. The Father then is the first person in Trinity, who hauing his be∣ing of himselfe, hath communicated his whole essence vnto the Sonne, and so hath begotten him by eternall generation. The Sonne is the se∣cond person in Trinity, who is begotten of the Father. The holy Spirit is the third person in the Trinity, proceeding from the Father and the Sonne, who is therefore called the Spirit, because he proceedeth, and (as it were) is breathed from them both; and the holy Spirit, because he doth immediately sanctifie the elect, and make them holy, and the Father and Sonne doe it mediately by him.

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