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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.
§. 4 The motive which induced me to the writing of this Treatise.
§. 4 The motiue which induced me to the writing of this Treatise.
And therefore seeing this carnal security is a capital sin, and most odious in Gods sight; and a mother Vice which in her fruitful womb breedeth and nourisheth all other kinds of wickedness; and seeing it is the Sin of the Times and of the Country, which hath wholly corrupted and poisoned the greatest number of our Nation, and somewhat tainted the very best; I thought it a fit Subject to write upon (For a word spoken in due season how good is it?) 1and to encounter this mother Sin with the Sword of the Spirit, and to strike at this Root of all Vice with the Axe of Gods Word; knowing, that if it be vanquished, all other Vices that depend upon it will easily be put to flight; if it be mortified and killed, the cursed offspring of this hellish Monster, will either be obortives in her dead womb, or die for want of nourishment, if already they be bred and borne; when as her poisonous breasts can yield unto them no further food.
And therefore seeing this carnall securitie is a capitall sinne, and most odious in Gods sight; and a mother Vice which in her fruitfull wombe breedeth and nourisheth all other kinds of wickednesse; and seeing it is the Sinne of the Times and of the Countrie, which hath wholly corrupted and poysoned the greatest number of our Nation, and somewhat tainted the very best; I thought it a fit Subiect to write vpon (For a word spoken in due season how good is it?) 1and to encounter this mother Sinne with the Sword of the Spirit, and to strike at this Roote of all Vice with the Axe of Gods Word; knowing, that if it be vanquished, all other Vices that depend vpon it will easily bee put to flight; if it bee mortified and killed, the cursed offspring of this hellish Monster, will either bee obortiues in her dead wombe, or die for want of nourishment, if alreadie they bee bred and borne; when as her poysonous brests can yeeld vnto them no further foode.