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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 examples of security in others severely punished, ought to be warnings unto us.
§. 3 The examples of securitie in others seuerely punished, ought to be warnings vnto vs.
To this purpose our Saviour also produceth examples, moving us to be wise by the experience of others harms. As the example of 1those who lived before the Flood, and of the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, who lived securely in their sins, eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, marrying and giving in marriage, as though they had been free from all danger, and sure that those pleasures would have ever lasted. But the issue of this sinful security was, that they were surprised with Gods fearful Judgements at unawares; For no sooner was Noah entered into the Ark, but the Flood came and drowned them all; and presently after that Lot was gone out of Sodom, those sinful and secure Cities with all their Inhabitants, were terribly consumed with fire and brimstone. And from both these Parables and Examples, the Lord raiseth admonitions and enforceth exhortations, moving us to shake off carnal security, and being affected with Christian fear, to stand carefully upon our watch, and to be instant in prayer, that we may be found ready at Christs appearing. Watch therefore, for you know not what hour your Lord doth 2come. And again, Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning. 3And ye your selves like unto them that wait for their Lord when he will return from the wedding, that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh, shall find watching, &c. And this know, that if the good man of the house had known what hour the Thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. Be therefore ready also; for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not. And elsewhere: Take you heed, watch and pray, for