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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 Fourthly, when our obedience ariseth not from spiritual causes, nor is directed to right ends.
§. 6 Fourthly, when our obedience ariseth not from spirituall causes, nor is directed to right ends.
Finally, it is a sign of security, when we content our selves with such a kind of obedience, as ariseth not from spiritual causes, nor is directed to right ends, but is done out of carnal motives and sinister respects. As when we leave sin and perform good duties, not out of Faith, and the true love and fear of God, but out of self-love and love of the World. When as we are moved hereunto by pleasure, rewards or punishments; and aim rather at our own then Gods glory; and are guided and directed in all our actions, not by the Word of God, but by carnal reason, proceeding, staying and turning back, as it suggesteth unto us, worldly inducements or discouragements. For as it was a sign, that Abraham truly feared God, when as he ⟨p. 45⟩1yielded absolute obedience to Gods Command and Word, without taking any advice from carnal reason; so is it a sign of carnal security, when as we only so far forth take counsel and direction from the Word of God, as will stand with our carnal reason and affection, performing those good works, and forsaking those Vices, which we would do or leave undone, though there were no immortality of the Soul, no Judgement; yea, no God to behold us, and to reward our good, or punish our evil actions.
Finally, it is a signe of securitie, when wee content our selues with such a kind of obedience, as ariseth not from spirituall causes, nor is directed to right ends, but is done out of carnall motiues and sinister respects. As when we leaue sinne and performe good duties, not out of Faith, and the true loue and feare of God, but out of selfe-loue and loue of the World. When as we are moued hereunto by pleasure, rewards or punishments; and ayme rather at our owne then Gods glorie; and are guided and directed in all our actions, not by the Word of God, but by carnall reason, proceeding, staying and turning backe, as it suggesteth vnto vs, worldly inducements or discouragements. For as it was a signe, that Abraham truely feared God, when as hee