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 17, 2024.
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§. Sect. 11 Of the meanes inabling vs vnto the obe∣dience of this Commande∣ment.
The meanes whereby we may be enabled to yeeld obedience to this Commandement, are of two sorts, first, such as tend to the attayning and preseruing of the purenes of the heart, which are, First, to walke with God, seeking to approue our hearts vnto him, who searcheth and trieth as well our secret thoughts and inclinations, as our outward words and actions. Secondly, to obserue and watch ouer our hearts and senses, that no e∣uill
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concupiscence doe arise in vs, or enter into vs, or if they doe arise, or be suggested, that we doe not admit them, or forthwith extinguish and quench them. Secondly, to watch ouer our selues, that no euill concupis∣cence do arise in vs, or enter into vs, to which end a twofold care is need∣ful, 1. When we are awake, to keepe our minds occupied in good and holy meditations, and exercised about lawfull things, not suffring them to be idle, or to wander about things vaine & vnlawful. 2. When we are to sleepe, that we commend our soules into the hands of God, desiring him to keep them safe from tentations, and pure from concupiscences. Thirdly, to obserue and guard our sences (especially our sight) by whose ministe∣ry the obiects of concupiscence are represented to the minde. Fourthly, that we put on, and keepe fast buckled vnto vs the whole spirituall Ar∣mour of God, which is mighty to cast downe imaginations, and to sub∣due euill thoughts. And finally, that we frequently vse feruent and ef∣fectuall prayer vnto almighty God, that he will assist and gouerne vs with his holy Spirit, against all ten∣tations and suggestions of the di∣uell, the world, and our owne flesh.