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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.
§. 3 Of carnal security which is in the unregenerate.
§. 3 Of carnall securitie which is in the vnregenerate.
Secondly, this carnal security is to be distinguished according to the divers subjects in which it is. For it is to be considered, as it is in the unregenerate before conversion, who are wholly ignorant and forgetful of God, destitute of Faith and the fear of God, or as it doth remain in the faithful, after they are in part regenerate and truly converted. In the unregenerate it continueth in it full strength, wholly possessing and corrupting the mind and heart, and depriving them ⟨p. 20⟩utterly of Gods fear, of the sight and sense of their sins, and of the Judgements and Punishments due unto them, either threatened and imminent, or else already inflicted and imposed. In these it reigneth and ruleth without resistance as a King and Sovereign, unto whom they yield peaceable and quiet obedience, keeping all in peace without any fear or disturbance, and as Satan's Vice-Roy subjecteth all the powers of the Mind and Soul unto his rule and government, so as quietly and without fear they do his will, according to the saying of our Saviour; When a strong Man armed keepeth his house, all that he possesseth is in peace. Or if the conscience being awakened and affrighted 1with the threatenings of the Law and apprehension of Gods Judgement, doth check their lusts and passions, and disturb this quiet peace; Carnal security soon pacifieth these tumults, by stopping the voice of the Conscience, and casting it into a deep sleep, whilst it causeth it to be lulled in the lap of carnal pleasure, and singeth unto it the sweet and bewitching tunes of worldly delights, with the ditty of earthly profits and preferments. In which they continue, till they come to sleep that last sleep of death, and are summoned to appear before Gods Judgement Seat, to give an account of all their former courses; unless in the mean time the Lord hastening his Judgement, doth strike the conscience with such horrors and fear, and so vexeth and tormenteth it with the guilt of sin, and apprehension of his wrath, that security is not able, by all the former means, to bring or keep it asleep, or to stop and quiet the loud cries thereof.