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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.
The sixth sign of security, is when a Man taketh encouragement by ⟨p. 37⟩Gods patience and long suffering, and his own impunity for his former offences, of multiplying his transgressions, and of going on in sin without repentance. For the riches of Gods goodness, and patient forbearance, should (as the Apostle saith) lead us to repentance, filling our hearts with sorrow, and our faces with shame, because we have so long and so often offended a God so gracious and merciful. And besides, it is a notable encouragement to make us hasten our repentance, seeing upon it we are sure of pardon. For we shall surely find him gracious in our returning, whom we have found so gracious in our backsliding; he will undoubtedly show mercy, and pardon our sins upon our repentance, who hath so long time patiently waited, that he might take occasion upon our true conversion, to have mercy upon us. But if we abuse and despise so great a mercy and unspeakable goodness, and take occasion of Gods patience and love, the more to provoke him, and to go on more carelessly in our sinful courses, what doth this argue but an hard and secure heart, which cannot repent, but treasureth up unto it self wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous Judgement of God, who though now he be patient, yet shall at that day, render unto every man according to his deeds; 1rousing him up with greatest torment and smart, who hath lived in his sins with greatest security; and inflicting upon him the sorest