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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.
§. 9 The fifth sign, is to fear Man more then God.
§. 9 The fift signe, is to feare Man more then God.
The fifth sign, is when we fear Men more then God, being more careful to please, and more loath to displease them, then his Majesty. 1For as the true fear of God maketh us to neglect men, in comparison of him, according to the commandment of our Saviour; Fear not them that kill the body, &c. and the example of the good Midwives, and the Parents of Moses, who feared God more then Pharaoh, of Daniel and the three Children who regarded not the Kings Edict, either commanding Idolatry or forbidding Gods true worship, and the Apostles who professed, that they feared God more then 2Men: So it is the nature of carnal security, to make us fear and respect ⟨p. 47⟩men, because their rewards and punishments, like unto it self are carnal; worldly, present and subject to the senses; and to neglect God, though his be unspeakable and everlasting, because being future and for the time to come, and as yet not to be seen or felt, we never consider nor think of them. Herein, much like unto foolish children, who fear more the School-master, threatening to whip them, because of the present smart; then the deserved threats of their just Father, though they concern them no less, then their rejection out of his favour for the present, and dis-inheriting from their patrimony in time to come.