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 That we must giue thankes in all things.
And after this manner must we shew our thankfulnesse vnto God: The obiect of our thanksgiuing, or the cause and occasion of giuing thankes, is, all things, according to that of the Apostle, In euery thing giue thankes; And againe, giuing thankes alwayes, for all things, vnto God the Father, in the name of the Lord Iesus Christ. That is, we must giue thankes for all good things, which are so in their owne nature, or which through Gods wise∣dome, power, and goodnesse are made so vnto vs; for positiue good things, as all Gods blessings and benefits, both temporall, spirituall, and eternall; or priuatiue, when God in his loue and mercy freeth vs from those euils of punishment which our sinnes haue deserued, or at least, doth not inflict them in that measure and degree which hee might iustly impose vpon vs: in which respect, the Church in her greatest afflictions tooke occasion of praysing God, and acknowledging his mercies, in that they were not vtterly consumed: And doth also turne these light and momentany afflictions to our good, as the mortification of our sinnes, the inriching of vs with spirituall graces, the furthering of our saluation, and the increasing of our heauenly ioy and happinesse.