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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. 2 Of the second impediment respecting the heart, which is […] the world.
§. Sect. 2 Of the second impediment respecting the heart, which is 〈…〉 the world.
The second impediment of a godly life, respecting the heart, is worldly concupiscence, and immoderate and excessive love of the world and earthly things, and chiefly of honours, riches and pleasures, and that carking care which ariseth from it, for the getting or keeping of them. Concerning the former. As the love of God ⟨p. 795⟩and the love of the world will not harbour together in the same heart, because 1the amity and friendship of the one, is enmity against the other, as the Apostles John and James teach us; so neither can we perform faithful service to them both, being Masters which stand in flat opposition one to 2the other, as our Saviour hath told us. In which regard, Demas is said to 3have forsaken the Apostle Paul, and with him, his Master Christ and his truth, as soon as he begun to love this present world. For when men have once fixed their hearts upon earthly vanities, all their cogitations are so taken up with them, that they have no leisure to think upon any Christian duties; and so wholly are they besotted with the love of this painted strumpet, that they think all time lost, which is not spent in winning and gaining her. So that when Christ inviteth them unto his Marriage Supper, to feast them with spiritual delicacies, that Gods graces may be so