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 June 14, 2024.

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§ Sect. 4 That the du∣ties of our cal∣lings must pro∣ceede from Loue.

Secondly, the duties of our callings must proceede out of vnfained loue towards God and our neighbours, which is the fountaine of all true obedience, and not principally from selfe-loue or loue of the world, which being poysonous rootes of all sinne, will taint all our workes and actions which spring from them. They must arise from the loue of God, which moueth those in whom it is, to consecrate wholy vnto him their liues and labours, in all things desiring to serue him, who so loueth vs, and whom we so loue, both in the immediate duties of his worship, and also in the or∣dinarie duties of our callings. And this is done, when as wee labour in them, not first and chiefly for worldly gaine and aduantage, thereby to please our selues; but in obedience to Gods Commandement, who re∣quireth these duties of vs, studying in all things to please him, and that our actions both for the matter and manner may be approued and ac∣cepted in his sight. Secondly, wee must performe the duties of our callings out of loue towards our neighbours, seeking in them their good * 1.1 as well as our owne, seeing true charity seeketh not her owne, but

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is also seruiceable vnto others: which if wee doe, then will we not wrong them, to benefit our selues, nor gaine by thir losse; wee will not depriue them of some great good, to get vnto our selues some small aduan∣tage; neither will we be so wholy intent and greedily gripple in follow∣ing our owne businesse, but that wee will spare them some of our time, and afford them our best helpe, when their necessity shall re∣quire our assistance, and reason, charity and conscience shall binde vs to afford it.

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