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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.
Faults escaped in the Treatise of Security.
Faults escaped in the Treatise of Securitie.
Pag. 6. l. 3. r. his mercies. p. 64. l. 9. r. idle spectator. p. 65. l. 22. r. opinion of our. p. 66. l. 6. r. against them in. p. 68. l. 22. r. by inuring. p. 70. l. 28. r. let us watch. p 83. l. 13. r. in the use. p. 89. l. 16. r. for a spurt. p. 92. l. 8. r. peace and security. And l. 20. r. God infinite.
Pag. 6. l. 3. r. his mercies. p. 64. l. 9. r. idle spectator. p. 65. l. 22. r. opinion of our. p. 66. l. 6. r. against them in. p. 68. l. 22. r. by inuring. p. 70. l. 28. r. let vs watch. p 83. l. 13. r. in the vse. p. 89. l. 16. r. for a spurt. p. 92. l. 8. r. peace and securitie. And l. 20. r. God infinite.
THE CONTENTS OF THE FIRST BOOK: Jntreating of Carnal Security.
THE CONTENTS OF THE FIRST BOOKE: Jntreating of Carnall Securitie.
CHAP. I. Of Security in general, and more especially of Security in the state of Innocency; and of that which is in us after the fall. §. 1. That God the supreme Goodness, turneth all, even evil it self into good. Pag. 1. §. 2. That it is the nature of sin and corruption, to turn all into evil. pag. 2. §. 3. That fleshly corruption abuseth prosperity, to the begetting in us of carnal Security. pag. 3. §. 4. The motive inducing to the writing of this Treatise. pag. 3. §. 5. That it is necessary to distinguish security into several kinds. pag. 3. §. 6. Of Security in the state of Innocency. pag. 4. §. 7. Of Security in the state of corruption, and the original of it. pag. 4. CHAP. II. Of carnal Security, and what it is. §. 1. OF the general parts of this Treatise. pag. 6. §. 2. Carnal Security defined. pag. 6. §. 3. Testimonies of Scripture, showing what it is. pag. 7. §. 4. Examples of carnal Security. pag. 7. CHAP. III. Of the manifold causes of carnal Security. §. 1. The first cause, ignorance of God, and his saving Attributes. pag. 8. §. 2. The second cause, want of consideration of that we know. pag. 9. §. 3. The third cause, Self-confidence. pag. 9. §. 4. The fourth cause, abuse of worldly prosperity. pag. 10 §. 5. The fifth cause, is customable sinning. pag. 11.