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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 A note of difference between true zeal and devotion, and that which is false and hypocritical.
§. Sect. 4 A note of difference betweene true zeale and deuotion, and that which is false and hypocriticall.
So that here we may have an undoubted and infallible sign, whereby we may know whether our zeal and devotion be true and sincere, or false and hypocritical; for if they be upright and in truth, they will not be lost in evil places and times; if they be substantial, and (as it were a new nature) and not mere shows and shadows, they will still retain it, and being of superior virtue, will strive against and overcome these corruptions of the times, which are contrary to them. Whereas if they yield unto them, and become profane with the irreligious, neglecting all Christian duties, because they live with those who do neglect them; it is hereby manifest, that there was never any true change in their nature, but only some accidental alteration for worldly respects. Though cold water be made never so hot, yet the heat of it will soon be abated, when it is taken off the fire, and compassed about with the cold air, and becometh more cold then it was at the first. And though the Iron being heat in the Forge, is much more hot and scorching then the fire in other combustible matter, yet being put into the water, or cast upon the ground in the cold air, it becometh more cold then either of them; because in this alteration there is no change of nature, but only of the quality by outward accident. But contrariwise, the fire which is naturally hot, and the Bath which is naturally warm, are not cooled by the cold winter air which doth encompass them. Yea by this antiparistasis and enclosure, their natural quality being kept in and better compacted, is intended and increased, so that the fire which but moderately heateth in mild weather, scorcheth in cold frosts: and the Bath, which is but temperately warm in summer, even smoketh and scaldeth with heat in the