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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 to have no desire to keep Gods Commandments.
§. 3 The second signe, is to haue no desire to keepe Gods Commandements.
The second sign of carnal security is, when as we have no desire and endeavour to serve God and keep his Commandments, either 1in doing the good which he requireth, or in departing from the evil which he hath forbidden. For the true fear of God doth always stir us up to obedience, whereof it is that they are usually joined together and often taken the one for the other. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him. And now Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his Ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul; to keep the Commandments of the Lord and his Statutes. So the wise Man saith, that the fear of the Lord is to depart from evil. Hence it is, that the Law is called, the fear of the Lord; and all other 2virtues and obedience are comprehended under it alone. The fear of the Lord is the head or beginning of wisdom. And, blessed is every one that feareth the Lord, that walketh in his Ways. And contrariwise, the want of all grace, and neglect of duty and obedience, is comprised under the want of Gods fear. So the Apostle having set down a large 3Catalogue of heinous sins, comprehendeth all in this one, as the cause of all the rest. There is no fear of God before their eyes. For security