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. 1 Of the summe of this Com∣mandement: And of anger and hatred.
IN the foure following Commandements are all those com∣mon vertues and duties required, which concerne all our neighbours in generall, and all the contrary vices and sinnes forbidden; all which concerne either their person and life, or the adiuncts belonging to them, as their chastity, goods and fame. Those vertues and vices which respect the person and life, are inioyned or forbidden in the sixth Commandement, in these words, Thou shalt not kill; which hath precedency before the other, because the person and life are of greater worth and excellency then the adiuncts that apper∣taine vnto them. The summe whereof is this, that wee in all our thoughts, words, and deedes, imbrace all vertues, and performe all duties which tend to the good of the person, and preseruation of the life, both of our neighbours and our selues, and flee the contrary vices and sinnes, whether they be inward or outward. And these are either the rootes and foun∣taines from whence the rest doe spring and flow; as anger and hatred; or the fruits and streames which arise and issue from them. The first duty commanded, is iust anger against the sinnes of our neighbours and our selues; vnto which is required, that it arise from iust causes, and be directed
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to good ends, that it be in a lawfull manner and measure, and continue a fit and conuenient time. And heereunto are required as the meanes of it, patience, long-suffering, and mildnesse, goodnesse, slownesse to anger, and readinesse to forgiue. The contrary vice whereof is heere forbidden, of which I will not heere speake, hauing written largely of it in another place. The second vertue commanded, is an holy hatred of our owne and our neighbours sinnes, which is alwayes ioyned with the loue of the per∣sons. Now the fruits of holy and iust anger and hatred, are to a passe by an offence, b freely to forgiue wrongs and iniuries, and euen to forget them; and to requite c good for euill to those who haue wronged vs, by d helping and e praying for them; and finally, to vse all f humanity and courtesie towards all men, acquaintance and strangers.