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. 7 Inforcement.
Yea Lord, my wants are not small, and therefore my suit must not bee slight. I must still wrastle with thee by my prayers and strong cryes, and not let thee depart, without a blessing. I am weake to preuaile, but I haue thy truth to support me, who hast promised that I shall obtaine, if I fol∣low my suit without fainting. O then make good thy word vnto thy seruant,wherein thou hast made me to put my trust: Giue me a melting heart, which will relent and resolue easily into teares of repentance. I am much defi∣led with the filthinesse of my sinnes, and a little washing will not make me cleane; Purge me thorowly therefore (O my God) and multiply my washings, first and chiefly in the blood of Christ, which will cleanse mee from the ingrained guilt of my crimson and scarlet sinnes; and wash mee in the lauer of Regeneration, and in the waters of vnfained repentance, which will, by vertue of the former washing, helpe to purge mee from the filth of my corruptions. Turne me, O turne me vnto thee (my God) andso shall I be turned; draw me, and I will runne after thee. Rectifie and fructifie my more then ordinary barrennesse, with the extraordinary showres of thy grace, and warme my heart with the beames of thy loue, that what∣soeuer good seed of thy Word shall fall into it, may take deepe root, and bring forth plentifull fruits of holinesse and righteousnesse; that as I
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haue heretofore, more then many others, dishonoured thee by my sinnes, so also I may now glorifie thee in some good degree, by bringing forth, in more then an ordinary manner and measure, plentifull fruits of new o∣bedience.