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. 3 The third meanes of integrity and sincerity.
The third meanes is, to consider that nothing shall be wanting vnto vs, for protection from dangers, or supply of necessaries, if we will serue God in sincerity. For he is all-sufficient without the helpe of inferiour meanes, and a most powerfull and bountifull Master, who is both able and willing to reward and protect all such as doe him faithfull seruice; so as there is no cause why we should halt betweene him and the world, or giue any place to dissimulation and hypocrisie, for feare or fauour, as though wee could no otherwise escape danger, or obtaine things necessary for the sup∣plying of our wants, vnlesse we be more carefull to please men then God; seeing he is all-sufficient in himselfe to protect and prouide for vs, and hath both the hands and hearts of all men at his disposing, so as they can neither helpe nor hurt vs, but so farre forth as he is pleased to vse them as instruments to serue his prouidence. And this argument the Lord vseth to perswade Abraham vnto this sincerity; I am God all-sufficient; walke be∣fore
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me and be vpright. As though he should say, Though thy idolatrous friends forsake thee, and thy heathenish enemies oppose thee, because thou hast renounced their Idols, and wholly deuoted thy selfe to worship me in truth; yet let not this discourage thee in thy sincerity, seeing I am all-sufficient to reward and defend thee. So the Prophet telleth Asa, that there was no cause why he had relyed vpon the King of Syria, and not vp∣on the Lord his God, seeing he is mighty and all-sufficient to preserue all those whose heart is perfect towards him.