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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 The second sign, is when we are forgetful of God and his Attributes.
§. 3 The second signe, is when wee are forgetfull of God and his Attributes.
The second sign of carnal security, is forgetfulness of God and his Attributes; when as we seldom or never remember, or think of his Omnipresence, and all-seeing Wisdom beholding us at all times, and in all our actions; his Justice and hatred of sin, and those that live in it; his Mercy, Goodness and love of Holiness and Righteousness, extended to those that fear and serve him: or finally, of the last Judgement, when as we must give a strict account of all which we have done in the flesh, before a just and unpartial Judge, which will not let Virtue go unrewarded, nor Sin unpunished. For as we ⟨p. 34⟩would think that Malefactor most secure and reckless, who being liable to the Law, guilty of heinous crimes, and bound over to give an account of all his offences the next Assizes before an upright Judge, should spend his time in drinking and revelling, pleasure and delight, and never think of the day of his Arraignment, nor how he may so answer for himself, that he may escape the sentence of death, or procure his Pardon: so much more is he to be thought not only asleep, but even stark dead in his security, who never calleth to mind either his own sins, or Gods Justice and righteous Judgements, or those eternal Punishments unto which he is liable, and shall never escape if in this life he hath not procured his Pardon by Faith in Christ, and bringing forth the fruits of it in unfeigned repentance.
The second signe of carnall securitie, is forgetfulnesse of God and his Attributes; when as we seldome or neuer remember, or thinke of his Omnipresence, and all-seeing Wisdome beholding vs at all times, and in all our actions; his Iustice and hatred of sinne, and those that liue in it; his Mercy, Goodnesse and loue of Holinesse and Righteousnesse, extended to those that feare and serue him: or finally, of the last Iudgement, when as we must giue a strict account of all which we haue done in the flesh, before a iust and vnpartiall Iudge, which will not let Vertue goe vnrewarded, nor Sinne vnpunished. For as we