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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.
§. Sect. 3 The third means of integrity and sincerity.
§. Sect. 3 The third meanes of integrity and sincerity.
The third means is, to consider that nothing shall be wanting unto us, for protection from dangers, or supply of necessaries, if we will serve God in sincerity. For he is all-sufficient without the help of inferior means, and a most powerful and bountiful Master, who is both able and willing to reward and protect all such as do him faithful service; so as there is no cause why we should halt between him and the world, or give any place to dissimulation and hypocrisy, for fear or favour, as though we could no otherwise escape danger, or obtain things necessary for the supplying of our wants, unless we be more careful to please men then God; seeing he is all-sufficient in himself to protect and provide for us, and hath both the hands and hearts of all men at his disposing, so as they can neither help nor hurt us, but so far forth as he is pleased to use them as instruments to serve his providence. And this argument the Lord useth to persuade Abraham unto this sincerity; I am God all-sufficient; walk before ⟨p. 409⟩1me and be upright. 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 devoted thy self 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 2