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. 4 Of the duties which we owe to our neigh∣bours soule.
The duties which tend to the preseruation of the life of our neigh∣bours soule, are either naturall or spirituall. In the former respect wee ought to preserue their liues, in cheering and comforting them by our sweete and Christian conuersation; and not vniustly offer vnto them any occasion whereby they may be vexed and grieued. In respect of the latter, we are not to hinder by any meanes the saluation of others, nor to be any wayes an offence vnto them, neglecting their saluation, as though it were a thing not belonging to vs; but contrariwise, vse all good meanes where∣by they may be wonne to Christ, edified in their most holy faith, and fur∣thered in the way of holinesse and righteousnesse, which will bring them to euerlasting happinesse. To which end, we must not commit any act whereby we may be scandalous vnto another, and a cause of his sinne, ei∣ther by a prouocation, b euill counsell, or c bad example; but contrary∣wise performe cheerefully all duties belonging to the communion of Saints e in spirituall things, as mutuall f obseruation one of another, g in∣structing the ignorant, confuting, conuincing and reclaiming him that er∣reth, that he may be sound in the faith, admonishing and h exhorting the negligent and backward, i reproouing those that offend, k comforting the comfortlesse; and l shining before all in the light of a good life and holy example.