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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 That if being poor, we carefully serve God, we may securely cast our selves upon his gracious providence, and expect him to be our reward.
§. Sect. 4 That if being poore, we carefully serue God, we may securely cast our selues vpon his gracious prouidence, and expect him to be our reward.
Sixthly, though we be poor, and have nothing to sustain us and our charge, but what we earn with our daily and painful labour, yet if we do not wholly addict our selves to the world, but allot seasonable times to Gods worship and service, we shall not be the nearer to want and penury; yea rather, laying aside all carking ⟨p. 855⟩care, we may securely cast our selves with full affiance upon his providence and promises, and expect such a blessing upon the labours of our hands performed in due place and time, as that neither we, nor those that belong unto us, shall want food convenient, nor any other thing that is good. For if the Lord be so gracious and bountiful, that he provideth for strangers, who serve Satan and their own lusts, how can we imagine that he will suffer those of his own family, who spare time from their necessary employments, that they may do him faithful service, to want and pine for hunger? If his providence extendeth to the Fowls 1of heaven, and the beasts of the field, to feed them without their care, and if he clotheth the Lilies of the field without their labour, how will he not take greater care for us that are his household servants, and adopted children, who moderately use our best study and endeavour to serve his providence, in providing things necessary, but so in the mean time, as that we will, by borrowing some time from the works of our callings, rather endanger our selves to want, then we will be wanting unto him in spiritual duties of his service? Let us then, as the Apostle exhorteth, be careful for nothing, but resting upon his 2