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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.
§. 4 That Christs holy Apostles have given us many warnings, to take heed of carnal security.
§. 4 That Christs holy Apostles haue giuen vs many warnings, to take heed of carnall securitie.
With like care and earnestness, do Christs holy Apostles admonish and warn us, to take heed of this dangerous and pernicious 1sin of carnal security. The Apostle Paul telleth us, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep, because now our salvation is nearer then when we believed, that is, then at our first conversion, when as we begun to believe. And therefore as Runners for a prize, make most speed when they come nearest unto the Goal: so should we be most careful in shaking off all security and sloth, and in running swiftly in the Race of godliness, when we approach to the Goal of blessedness: and exhorteth us, that seeing the Night is far spent, and the Day is at 2hand, we do therefore cast off the works of darkness, and put on the Armour of light. And again: Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from 3the dead; and Christ shall give thee light. See that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. And elsewhere: Let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober, &c. And because we are always in danger, he would have us to be at no time reckless and secure, but seeing we have innumerable enemies ever ready to assault us, he exhorteth us to have continually the whole Armour of God fast buckled unto us, that we may be able 4