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

So that hence also appeareth another difference between the carnal security of Worldlings, and that which is incident to Gods Children; seeing that utterly disableth them to the performance of all good duties, even as a man that is dead, or in a deep sleep of Lethargy, is utterly unable to do the actions of the Living; yea, it causeth them to abhor them as irksome and troublesome: but this only worketh a temporary neglect of such duties, as they afterwards perform with so much the more care and diligence, after they are recovered out of this sleep of security. That causeth Worldlings to hate and abhor the means, whereby they might be recovered out of their Lethargy, because they are in love with their disease, as the consideration of Gods Justice, Power, Goodness, and the rest of those Attributes which serve to implant Gods fear in our hearts, the hearing of the Word, Prayer, and such other helps, of which we shall speak hereafter: but the other which is in the Christian, being sensible and discerned by him, doth work in his heart an hatred of it, a desire to be freed from it, and an endeavour in the use of all good means, where by his desire may be satisfied.

So that hence also appeareth another difference betweene the carnall securitie of Worldlings, and that which is incident to Gods Children; seeing that vtterly disableth them to the performance of all good duties, euen as a man that is dead, or in a deepe sleepe of Lethargie, is vtterly vnable to doe the actions of the Liuing; yea, it causeth them to abhorre them as irkesome and troublesome: but this onely worketh a temporarie neglect of such duties, as they afterwards performe with so much the more care and diligence, after they are recouered out of this sleepe of securitie. That causeth Worldlings to hate and abhorre the meanes, whereby they might be recouered out of their Lethargie, because they are in loue with their disease, as the consideration of Gods Iustice, Power, Goodnesse, and the rest of those Attributes which serue to implant Gods feare in our hearts, the hearing of the Word, Prayer, and such other helps, of which wee shall speake hereafter: but the other which is in the Christian, being sensible and discerned by him, doth worke in his heart an hatred of it, a desire to be freed from it, and an indeauour in the vse of all good meanes, where by his desire may be satisfied.