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holy love is to be exercised and in which pure obedience to God consists - these ways are all godly & the pure obedience which is yielded to them, is godliness - Hence Godliness includes the exercise of all the christian graces of repentance, faith, love, hope, humility patience, & all others who can be names - likewise, public, private, & secret duties toward God, & all social duties of benevolence towards man - consequently godliness has a glance at, and means comprehensively the sum of true religion - or the duty wh. God requires of man -
That we may always have the right idea rise in our minds, when the term godliness is used, let it