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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.
§. 11 The eleventh cause is the miss-applying of the promises of the Gospel.
§. 11 The eleuenth cause is the misse-applying of the promises of the Gospell.
The eleventh cause of carnal Security, is the miss-applying of the promises of the Gospel unto those, who have no part or interest in them. For when as there is no promise so general and indefinite, which is not limited and restrained to the condition of the Covenant of Grace, Faith in Christ bringing forth the fruits of unfeigned repentance; yet wicked men resolving to go on in the course of sin, no sooner hear the Promises of Gods mercy, the pardon of their sins, and eternal life and salvation, for the righteousness and obedience of Jesus Christ, which have always the former condition expressed or understood, but presently with great confidence, or rather presumption, they lay hold of the Promises, but have no care at all of performing the Condition. Thus when the Lord saith: As truly as I live I will not the death of a sinner, that they make use of for the 1nourishing of their carnal security, never regarding what followeth; but that he repent and live. So when Christ saith, that he came not to 2call the Righteous, but Sinners; with that they comfort themselves in their sinful courses, but observe not to what he calleth them, namely, to repentance, before they can have any part with him in glory. And when they hear the Apostles speech; that God will have all men to be 3saved, they make a bolster of it whereon they sleep securely in their sins; but leave out the following condition, which would help to keep them waking, namely, that he will have all, whom he would have saved, come first to the saving knowledge of his Truth, which is