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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 That Gods Spirit will not dwell in a secure heart.
And as this security depriveth us of all saving grace: so also of the good Spirit of God, which is the author and fountain of them. For 1it causeth us, through sloth and negligence to quench the good motions of the Spirit, either persuading us to the performance of good ⟨p. 58⟩duties, or to shun and avoid vice and sin, whilst we neglect to put in practice, the things unto which it moveth us: And so vexing 2and grieving this holy guest, we make him weary of his lodging, and willing to depart from us. For, as security maketh way for the evil spirit to enter into our hearts, when as it sweepeth it clean of all virtue, and garnisheth it with vice and sinful corruptions: so it maketh the good Spirit to remove and depart, being in all things most opposite unto it. And as the fire is extinguished when as we do not blow and cherish it, or if we stop the vent so as it cannot flame out, and smother it in its own smoke; so we do extinguish the fire of Gods Spirit, when through security we neglect to use the means whereby it is nourished, or will not let it blaze and flame out in the actions of holiness and righteousness.
And as this securitie depriueth vs of all sauing grace: so also of the good Spirit of God, which is the author and fountaine of them. For 1it causeth vs, through sloth and negligence to quench the good motions of the Spirit, either perswading vs to the preformance of good ⟨p. 58⟩