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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.
§. 5 That it is necessary to distinguish security into its several kinds.
§. 5 That it is necessary to distinguish securitie into its seuerall kinds.
But that we may not mistake our Friends for our Enemies, and because they have some resemblance of the same names and colours, fight against both alike, and so as much endamage our selves by ⟨p. 4⟩wounding those that are of our own party, as get advantage by subduing those that are against us: It shall not be amiss in the first place to marshal them in their several ranks, and by due distinctions to separate the one from the other, as Jehu the Priests of the Lord from 1the Priests of Baal; that so we may with more courage and confidence assault our Enemies, and afterwards comfort and cherish our Friends, which will, if they be rightly and kindly used, be serviceable unto us, and after victory add unto our triumph much joy and contentment.
But that we may not mistake our Friends for our Enemies, and because they haue some resemblance of the same names and colours, fight against both alike, and so as much endamage our selues by ⟨p. 4⟩wounding those that are of our owne partie, as get aduantage by subduing those that are against vs: It shall not bee amisse in the first place to marshall them in their seuerall rankes, and by due distinctions to separate the one from the other, as Iehu the Priests of the Lord from 1