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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
OF CARNAL SECURITY. › Book 1 › Chapter 6OF CARNALL SECVRITIE. › Book 1 › Chapter 6
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.
CHAP. VI.
Of the signs of carnal security, arising from the causes of it.
Of the signes of carnall securitie, arising from the causes of it.
§. 1 That the causes of carnal security do argue and show the effect.
§. 1 That the causes of carnall securitie doe argue and shew the effect.
And thus we have showed the many differences, which may be observed between that carnal security which is in the unregenerate, and that which after regeneration remaineth in the faithful: And now according to our order propounded, we are to set down some signs of this Vice, according to which if we examine our selves, we may discern whether it reigneth and ruleth in us or no. To the end, that if after due trial and examination of our estate, we find that it doth, we may not content our selves with this fearful condition, and so continue in it, but may labour earnestly to come out of it, and to this purpose carefully use the means of which I shall speak afterwards. The first sort of signs are, when we find the causes of this security in us, ⟨p. 33⟩