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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. 4 Of the false judgement of the world, showed in their bitter censures of the godly.
§. Sect. 4 Of the false iudgement of the world, shewed in their bitter censures of the godly.
And thus we may encourage our selves in the duties of a godly life, against the hatred of the world and wicked men. Let us in the next place consider of the fruits of this hatred, from which divers impediments do arise, that hinder many in the ways of godliness. And these are either internal in the mind and judgement, or external in the words and actions: of the former sort there are two notable hinderances and discouragements. The first is the false judgement and erroneous opinion of wicked worldlings, showed in their hard and harsh, bitter and uncharitable censures of the godly, whereby they condemn their persons, and all the good graces of God in them, with all the virtuous actions which are done by them, as evil and faulty. Their fervency of devotion in religious exercises, they judge to be gross hypocrisy; their wisdom and Christian prudence, they repute wiliness and subtlety; their simplicity, folly; their zeal, 1madness; their patience, Stoical apathy and stupidity; their frugality, niggardly avarice; their bounty, lavish wastefulness; their Christian forbearance and long-suffering, pusillanimity and base cowardice; their severity, cruelty; their resolute and absolute obedience to Gods Law, they condemn as no better then rebellion against Princes and Magistrates; their contempt of the world and ⟨p. 765⟩