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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.
§. 6 That carnal security exposeth us to Gods fearful Judgements.
§. 6 That carnall securitie exposeth vs to Gods fearfull Iudgements.
Secondly, this carnal security bringeth upon us Gods fearful Judgements, as appeareth by many testimonies of Scriptures, wherein 1they are denounced, and many examples of secure sinners, upon whom they have been inflicted. So the Lord threateneth, that if any hearing the words of the Curse recorded in the Book of the Law, do bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness unto thirst; he will not spare him, but then his anger and jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in that Book shall lye upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under Heaven; and the Lord shall separate him unto evil. Thus, because the Rulers of Jerusalem said, We 2have made a covenant with Death, and with Hell are we at agreement, when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid our selves; therefore the Lord threateneth, that their covenant with Death shall be disannulled, and their agreement with Hell shall not stand, and that when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, they should be trodden down by it. So because the residue of Israel, living in great iniquity, blood and perverseness, said in their security; The Lord hath forsaken ⟨p. 60⟩3the Earth and seeth not; the Lord threateneth that his eye should not spare them, and that he would have no pity, but would recompense their way upon their head. Thus the more careless and secure the Jews were in examining their wicked works and ways, saying in their hearts; The Lord will do neither good nor evil, the more curiously