A20762:2952
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.
§. 2 The second cause, want of consideration of that we know.
§. 2 The second cause, want of consideration of that wee know.
The second cause of security is, when as knowing these things, for want of consideration we cast them negligently behind our backs, and make no use of that we know. For therefore do men securely go on in their sin and fear no danger; because they do not meditate and consider, that the eye of their Judge is always upon them, who will execute righteous Judgement without respect of persons; of the day of Judgement, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, and all hidden things brought to light. Of that strict account, which is then to be given, and the eternal miseries and hellish tormentg into which they shall be irrecoverably plunged, who come short in their reckonings, and are not able to pay their debts. Because they do not consider that the pleasures of sin, which they presently enjoy, are short and momentany, and may every day be taken from us or we from them; but the punishments of them great and endless, even the final loss of eternal happiness; and the intolerable torments of hellish condemnation.
The second cause of securitie is, when as knowing these things, for want of consideration we cast them negligently behind our backs, and make no vse of that we know. For therefore doe men securely goe on in their sinne and feare no danger; because they doe not meditate and consider, that the eye of their Iudge is alwayes vpon them, who will execute righteous Iudgement without respect of persons; of the day of Iudgement, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, and all hidden things brought to light. Of that strict account, which is then to be giuen, and the eternall miseries and hellish tormentg into which they shall be irrecouerably plunged, who come short in their reckonings, and are not able to pay their debts. Because they doe not consider that the pleasures of sinne, which they presently inioy, are short and momentanie, and may euery day bee taken from vs or wee from them; but the punishments of them great and endlesse, euen the finall losse of eternall happinesse; and the intollerable torments of hellish condemnation.