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. 2 Of the sancti∣fying of Gods name in law∣full oathes.
More especially, there is required in this Commandement, that wee glorifie and sanctifie Gods name by our oathes and vowes. First, by our oathes, vnto which is required, first, that we honour Gods name, in swea∣ring by it vpon a iust and necessary occasion, acknowledging thereby Gods infinite wisdome, from which nothing canly hid; his Truth, which abhorreth all lies and falshoods; his Iustice, which when he is called to be a witnesse and Iudge, will neither suffer truth and innocency to goe vn∣rewarded, nor vntruth and guiltinesse vnpunished without respect of per∣sons. Secondly, that we sweare only by the name of God, either directly or indirectly, and by no creature in heauen or earth. Thirdly, that wee sweare after a lawfull manner, vnto which is required that we sweare in truth, that is, to that which is true, and truly, according to the perswasi∣on of our mindes; In righteousnesse, binding our selues thereby only vnto things lawfull; and in iudgement, whereby we discerne the necessitie of it, in regard that we can no otherwise cleare the truth, nor be beleeued in a
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matter of importance, which much respecteth Gods glory, or our owne or neighbours good. And so come to the performance of this high and ho∣ly action with all reuerence as in Gods presence, duly weighing and con∣sidering the conditions and circumstances of our oath, according to the Scriptures. Lastly, that we sweare vnto a right end, namely, to the glory of God, by reuealing and ratifying a necessary and vnknowne truth, which could no otherwise bee made manifest; and to the good of our neigh∣bours and our selues, that they may be satisfied, all controuersies and strifes ended, all doubts and suspitions remoued, and our owne truth and innocency declared and cleared.