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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.
§. 6 The fifth sign, is customable sinning.
§. 6 The fift signe, is customable sinning.
The fifth sign, is customable sinning without renewing of repentance; especially if these sins be committed, not through frailty and infirmity, but against knowledge and conscience. For howsoever, he that feareth God may fall into sin; yet the secure person alone committeth commonly known sins, which either wound or fear the Conscience. Though he may fall often, as the wise Man speaketh (for in many things we sin all;) Yet he maketh not a custom 1of it, neither is it his way▪ but his slips and errors; but it is the secure man only that maketh sin his usual trade, that walketh in the 2counsel of the ungodly, as his way, that standeth in the way of sinners, as his place of abode, that sitteth in the seat of the scornful, as in the place of his rest and chief repose. Finally, though the faithful through his own wickedness, and strength of Satan's tentations, may grievously fall into heinous sins; yet it is not his, but a property of a secure Worldling, to continue in such sins without repentance. It is a great sign of carnal security, to commit a known sin, for the base hire of earthly vanities, seeing (if God take him with the manner and lay it to his charge) it is the bane of his Soul, the loss of Heaven, and purchase of everlasting torments in Hell fire. And who not blinded with security, could run these hazards for things of such small value? But how much more, if having often hardly escaped these dangers, we make a common practise of thrusting our selves into them by our ordinary course of sin; and by careless living in these sins without repentance? For who, not drowned in security, could imagine himself to be in any safety, that hath the halter about his neck, and the knife at his throat, and is every minute in danger of execution? yea, who can cast himself upon the Pikes, and take deep draughts of this deadly poison of sin, and yet presume of health and safety?