A20762:1191
A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties
A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helps enabling & the reasons persuading unto it the impediments hindering the practise of it, and the best means to remove them whereunto are added divers prayers and a treatise of carnal security by John Douname Bachelor in Divinity and minister of Gods Word.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.
London: printed by Felix Kingstone and William Stansby for Ed, 1622
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CAP. XXXIII.
How we ought to behave our selves in the estate of prosperity, that we may thrive in all spiritual graces.
How wee ought to behaue our selues in the estate of prosperity, that wee may thriue in all spirituall graces.
§. Sect. 1 What prosperity is, and how apt we are to abuse it through our corruption.
§. Sect. 1 What prosperity is, and how apt wee are to abuse it through our corruption.
WE are now come in the last place to consider how we ought to carry our selves every day, in respect of those several estates and conditions of prosperity and adversity unto which God calleth us. The which having no certain and set time allotted unto them by God, (for we may divers days together flourish in prosperity, or be as long cast down and humbled by troubles and afflictions, yea sometime, and that most commonly, have them intermingled the one with other, beginning the day with joy in our prosperous affairs, and ending it with sorrow and grief by reason of our crosses and calamities, or contrariwise have cause of mourning in the morning, and of rejoicing before the evening) therefore the duties which concern these several estates, cannot be limited to any set time, but must follow and accompany them, as it shall please God to give us occasion by the interchanging our divers states and conditions the one with the other. Of which my purpose is to speak very briefly, though they be matters which greatly import the Christian life, because I have largely handled them already in my Christian Warfare. And first, for prosperity,