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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.
§. 12 The eleventh sign, miss-applying of the Promises.
§. 12 The eleuenth signe, misse-applying of the Promises.
The eleventh sign is, when as we miss-apply the Promises of the Gospel unto us, which do not at all belong unto us, because we do not perform the condition of Faith and Repentance. For as the eager longing of the sick patient, after unwholesome meats and drinks, doth show unto the skilful Physician what humour aboundeth, because it is the nature of every one of them, to affect that food whereby it is chiefly nourished: so the Worldlings delight in feeding upon the Promises of the Gospel, doth argue his security, seeing this spiritual Manna received into a carnal stomach, doth nourish and much increase this disease, not in it own nature, but through the malignant property of the stomach that receiveth it, and the gross abuse of these foolish Patients, who will feed upon these Cordials of comfort, before their gross humours are purged by Faith and Repentance, and so are not helped at all of their diseases, but have the heat of their Fever much increased.
The eleuenth signe is, when as we misse-apply the Promises of the Gospell vnto vs, which doe not at all belong vnto vs, because we doe not performe the condition of Faith and Repentance. For as the eager longing of the sicke patient, after vnholsome meates and drinks, doth shew vnto the skilfull Physician what humour aboundeth, because it is the nature of euery one of them, to affect that food whereby it is chiefly nourished: so the Worldlings delight in feeding vpon the Promises of the Gospell, doth argue his securitie, seeing this spirituall Manna receiued into a carnall stomacke, doth nourish and much increase this disease, not in it owne nature, but through the malignant propertie of the stomacke that receiueth it, and the grosse abuse of these foolish Patients, who will feed vpon these Cordialls of comfort, before their grosse humours are purged by Faith and Repentance, and so are not helped at all of their diseases, but haue the heat of their Feauer much increased.