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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 That God watcheth over the godly with his special providence; and the benefits of this privilege.
§. Sect. 3 That God watcheth ouer the godly with his special prouidence; and the benefits of this priuiledge.
The second privilege which God vouchsafeth unto all those that lead a godly life, is, that loving them with this fatherly love, he watcheth over them with his providence, to confer upon them all manner of good. For howsoever all things in heaven and earth are subject to this all-seeing and all-ruling providence, yet after a more special manner he watcheth over those that fear him, as his own peculiar people; and though his power and presence extend to all the world, like the power of a King unto his whole Dominions, yet he is hereby chiefly beneficial to those that fear and serve him, as being of his own family, yea his adopted children in Jesus Christ. Thus the Psalmist saith, that the eyes of the Lord are upon the 1righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. And again, The eyes of the Lord are upon them that fear him; And as Elihu speaketh, He withdraweth 2not his eyes from them. So David in another place; The Lord knoweth the 3days of the upright, and their inheritance shall be for ever. Yea, but the eyes of the Lord are upon all things, and there is nothing so secret, that is unknown unto him; and what privilege then have those herein that serve him, above those that serve him not? It consists not in the general view, and notice which God taketh of one thing as well as of another; but in that he hath a more watchful and benign eye over those that fear him, to preserve them from all evil, and to bestow upon them all that is good; by reason whereof they are so far from miscarrying by any chance and casualty, any malice or fury of their enemies, that not so much as an hair