A20762:2909
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.
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. ⟨image 494⟩§. 6. The sixth cause, is the present impunity of sinners. pag. 12. §. 7. The seventh cause, presumption on Gods mercy. pag. 13. §. 8. The eight cause, the neglect or contempt of the means of grace and salvation. pag. 14. §. 9. The ninth cause, hearing the Word without Faith. pag. 14. §. 10. The tenth cause, not applying the Word preached. pag. 15. §. 11. The eleventh cause, the mis-applying of the promises of the Gospel. pag. 16. §. 12. The twelfth cause, a flattering Ministry. pag. 16. CHAP. IIII. Of the divers kinds of carnal Security. §. 1. OF natural security, which is in all men. pag. 18. §. 2. Of carnal security, which is affected and voluntary. pag. 19. §. 3. Of carnal security, which is in the unregenerate. pag. 19. §. 4. Of that which remaineth in the Regenerate, and how it groweth upon them. pag. 20. §. 5. Of insensible and sensible security in the faithful. pag. 22. §. 6. Of the causes of carnal security in the faithful; first, prosperity, worldly or spiritual. pag. 23. §. 7. The second cause is spiritual pride. pag. 24. CHAP. V.