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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
OF CARNAL SECURITY. › Book 1 › Chapter 1OF CARNALL SECVRITIE. › Book 1 › Chapter 1
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.
CHAP. I.
The Preface. Of Security in general: and more specially of security in the state of Innocency; and of that which is in us after the Fall.
The Preface. Of Securitie in generall: and more specially of securitie in the state of Innocency; and of that which is in vs after the Fall.
§. 1 That God the supreme goodness turneth all, even evil it self into good.
§. 1 That God the supreme goodnesse turneth all, euen euill it selfe into good.
AS it is the nature and property of the supreme Goodness, to make all things like unto it self, and even out of evil to produce that which is good: so is it the nature of sin and corruption, so to poison and taint whatsoever it toucheth, that though it be of an indifferent nature, yea originally good, it maketh it like it self evil and sinful. Of the former we have God himself, the best example; who being infinite in wisdom, power and goodness, doth not only effect his good ends by good means and instruments; but is able to bring light out of darkness, good out of evil, and to make the worst instruments fit tools for the perfecting and polishing his best works. And thus he ordinarily useth the evil of punishment, as crosses, calamities and afflictions of all kinds corporal and spiritual, not only for the just punishment of the wicked, but for the trial of his own Servants, the purging and