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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.
§. 11 The seventh sign, is to run from God and to rest on inferior means, in danger and affliction.
§. 11 The seuenth signe, is to run from God and to rest on inferiour meanes, in danger and affliction.
The seventh sign is, when we run from God in the time of danger, unto secondary causes and inferior means, which failing, we wholly distrust God as not able or willing to help us, and being forsaken on all sides, we are wholly possessed with fear, and so by it are plunged ⟨p. 48⟩into despair. For as he that truly feareth God for his Goodness, All-sufficiency, Justice, Mercy, Power and Providence, is moved by the same Attributes to put his trust and affiance in him in all dangers, like the loving child who the more he feareth and reverenceth his Father, the more ready he is to flee unto him in confidence of his help when any peril approacheth, because the same motives serve for both; and as they who sanctify the Lord of Hosts by letting him to be their fear 1and dread, may be assured that he also will be their Sanctuary, unto which when they flee in time of danger, they may be in safety, as the Prophet Isaiah speaketh: So he whose heart is destitute of Gods fear, and taken up with carnal security, never thinketh of those Attributes which seem to work in us both fear and affiance; but thinketh that God sitteth in Heaven, not regarding what is done upon the Earth; and saith in his heart, the Lord will do neither good or evil. The 2