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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 Of that carnal security which remaineth in the regenerate; and how it groweth upon them.
§. 4 Of that carnal securitie which remayneth in the regenerate; and how it groweth vpon them.
The carnal security of the faithful, is those relics that remain of natural security, in the part unregenerate, and one especial fruit of 1the Flesh, which is but in part mortified by the Spirit. For our regeneration and sanctification being unperfect in this life, the Christian Man is partly Flesh and partly Spirit, both which are accompanied with their several fruits, as the Apostle showeth, the which continually fight and lust one against the other; and sometime the Flesh and its Corruption, sometime the Spirit and its saving Graces, prevaileth and giveth the adverse part the foil; as elsewhere I have more fully 2showed. Thus the part unregenerate retaineth and nourisheth carnal security, forgetfulness of God and his all-seeing Wisdom, his omnipotent Power, and severe Justice in punishing sin, his Mercy and Goodness towards those that fear and serve him, and thereby becometh careless and secure, and goeth on in sin without repentance. And contrariwise, the part regenerate, remembering these holy Attributes, still retaineth and cherisheth the true fear of God, and ⟨p. 21⟩thereby is made careful and watchful to please him in all things, and consequently to avoid sin as the greatest evil, or having been overtaken with it through frailty and infirmity, not to continue in it, but to arise again out of it by unfeigned repentance. And these continually make war one against the other, and sometime the fear of God prevaileth and bringeth security in subjection, and then the Christian maketh conscience of all sin, and with all care and watchfulness avoideth all tentations, causes and occasions, that might allure or draw him unto wickedness; then he daily reneweth his repentance, and laboureth diligently in the use of all good means, whereby he may make