A20762:3085
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.
§. 12 The eight sign, is contempt of Gods Ministers.
§. 12 The eight signe, is contempt of Gods Ministers.
Lastly, it is a sign of carnal security, when as in our hearts we do not reverence his Ministers and Ambassadors, who in the work of their ministry represent his Majesty, and in an especial manner bear in them his Image. For as he that truly feareth his King, doth in the execution of their Office reverence not only the Lord Chancellor and Chief Justice, but even the meanest Major or Bailiff, who represent his person, and come in his name, to enjoin that which he hath commanded; so he that feareth the King of Kings, reverenceth also not only the person of Kings and Princes, because they bear in them the Image of his Power and Sovereignty, but also his Ambassadors, who bring unto us his Word of Truth, which hath no less power in spiritual and heavenly things, then the word of the greatest Monarch, speaking on Gods behalf about things that are earthly and temporal; for they have authority given them to judge the people, 1as the Lord speaketh to the Prophet; and they have a large Commission given them for the execution of their Office and ministerial Function, both for absolving the penitent Believer, and condemning the unbelieving and impenitent sinner; not in their own authority (which the Popes challenge as belonging inseparably to their Sea and Place, which enableth them to bind and loose absolutely without respect of persons, penitent or impenitent, or any condition to be observed by the party, saving such as respect the Popes profit;) but declaratively as Gods Messengers, speaking in his Name; according to that of our Saviour: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted