A20762:2912
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 SECOND BOOK: Entreating of Spiritual and Christian Security.
THE CONTENTS OF THE SECOND BOOKE: Intreating of Spirituall and Christian Securitie.
CHAP. I. Wherein spiritual security is defined, and the definition explained. §. 1. That all security is not to be condemned, but that it is in some kind commendable; and to be desired. pag. 85. §. 2. The description of spiritual Security. pag. 86. §. 3. That God is the author of spiritual Security. pag. 87. §. 4. That the Regenerate only are the subject of spiritual Security. pag. 88. §. 5. The grounds of spiritual Security, on which it resteth. pag. 88. §. 6. Of the continuance and perpetuity of spiritual Security. pag. 89. CHAP. II. Of the Causes and Effects of spiritual Security. §. 1. The causes of spiritual Security respecting God. pag. 90. §. 2. The causes of spiritual Security, respecting God. pag. 91. §. 3. Of the particular causes of spiritual Security, first, saving knowledge. pag. 92. §. 4. The second cause, a lively Faith in Christ. pag. 93. §. 5. The third cause, Charity. pag. 93. §. 6. The fourth cause, the true fear of God. pag. 94. §. 7. The last cause, is new obedience. pag. 94. §. 8. Of the effects of spiritual Security. pag. 95. ⟨image 496⟩CHAP. III. Of the means of spiritual security, whereby it may be obtained or preserved and increased. §. 1. The first means is, highly to esteem it and to seek it from God and in him. pag. 96. §. 2. The second means is, to labour to be in the number of Christs Disciples and Sheep of his flock. pag. 97. §. 3. The third means is, that we labour to be in the covenant of Grace. pag. 98. §. 4. The fourth means is, to labour to have the causes of it in us. As, first, the Spirit of adoption, and the chain of saving Graces. pag. 99. §. 5. The fifth means is, to labour to be endued with those special saving Graces, which are the causes of it, first, knowledge and remembrance of God and his Attributes. Secondly, Faith: Thirdly, Affiance: fourthly, love of God: fifthly, the fear of God: sixthly, Christian righteousness: seventhly, new obedience. pag. 100. §. 6. The sixth means, contempt of the World. pag. 101. §. 7. The seventh means, to keep our hearts upright and our consciences pure. pag. 102. §. 8. The last means is, Christian watchfulness, and often examination of our estates. pag. 103.