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. 6 That we must consort our selues with good com∣pany.
The sixth caution is, that for our recreation sake we doe not willingly consort our selues with euill company; obseruing heerein the Apostles rule; Haue no fellowship with the vnfruitfull workes of darkenesse, but rather reprooue them. Wherein our care ought to be the greater, because nothing more causeth neere familiarity and friendly acquaintance, then agreement and communion in the same delights, and nothing sooner breedeth likenesse of manners and conditions, then when in our pleasures wee iumpe and conioyne together with one minde and affection. So that as our recreati∣ons with them that truely feare God, are strong bonds to tye vs vnto them in loue, and forcible motiues to make vs also ioyne with them, whom wee so loue in all good duties and vertuous actions; so contrariwise commu∣nicating with prophane persons and carnall worldlings, in our sports and pastimes, causeth vs in time to proceede from liking of the pleasure, to like the party that ioyneth with vs in it, and from affecting of the man, wee come at last to affect his manners. Neither is there more danger in the time of plague, for one that is sound, to keepe in the same house with those that are sicke; then for a true Christian, to consort in pleasure with such as make no conscience of their wayes; seeing as well from the one as from the other, there issueth and spreadeth a secret poyson, which with its contagi∣on, infecteth those that come into their company.