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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.
§. 2 Secondly, such as are inflicted on our selves.
§. 2 Secondly, such as are inflicted on our selues.
But much more doth it argue an heart full of carnal security, when as we make no good use for our repentance and humiliation, of those afflictions which are inflicted upon our own persons. For, ictus piscator sapit, the burnt child dreadeth the fire; Et serò sapiunt phryges, 1even those that are most dull of conceit, wax wiser by many warnings. And it is a sign, that we are more senseless through this security, then the Horse or Ass, if we are nothing moved with the Rod and Spur of Gods chastisements and punishments. Even many of the Jews, though very negligent and secure in their prosperity, have this Testimony given unto them by the Prophet, that they were awakened out of their dead slumber by afflictions, and sought unto God in the day of their adversity. O Lord (saith he) in trouble they have 2visited thee, they have poured forth a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. Though there were others of them more senseless in their ⟨p. 42⟩security, of whose stupidity the Lord complaineth: In vain have I 3smitten your Children, they have received no correction. And the Prophet: Thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction, they have made their faces harder then a Rock, they have refused to return. And again, The people turneth not unto him that smiteth them; neither do they seek