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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.
CAP. VII.
Of worldly persecutions, and how we may be strengthened against them.
§. Sect. 1 Of the worlds cruelty, in persecuting the godly.
WE have showed in the former Chapters, what impediments the world, and wicked men cast in the way, to hinder our profession and practice of the true Religion, which respect their judgment and affections, their words and outward gestures: and now we are to entreat of those which respect their works and actions. And these are their contumelious and malicious handling of them, and the bitter persecutions which they raise against them, that they may either hinder them wholly from proceeding in the course of Christianity, or at least cause them to go on with much discouragement and discomfort. The which contumelies and persecutions are great and manifold; as the pursuing of them with all malice and extremity, from place to place, apprehending them as malefactors, haling them before their Judgment seats, false accusations, unjust condemnations, imprisonments, and banishments, fire and sword, tortures & punishments, executed and inflicted in the most exquisite manner which wit and malice can devise and impose. And this malicious rage of wicked men, the Prophet Isaiah in lively manner expresseth: The act of violence (saith he) is in