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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.
§. 9 That carnal security is a fearful punishment of other sins.
§. 9 That carnall securitie is a fearful punishment of other sinnes.
Finally, as this carnal security is in it self sinful, the cause of sin and the cause of punishment: so (that we may know that there is no relation or respect of evil wanting in it) it self also is a fearful punishment of other sins. For when we not only put out the small sparks of the light of nature remaining in us, and put to silence our own consciences, accusing us for sin; but also strive against Gods Spirit, and quench the good motions thereof, either moving us to good or restraining us from evil; then it is just with God to give us up unto our 1own lusts, seeing we will needs serve them, and not let his spirit always strive with us; to blind our minds and understandings (not by putting out our eyes, but) by with-holding the light of his holy Spirit, whereby alone they are illuminated; to harden our hearts (not by infusion of corruption) but leaving them to their own natural hardness, and denying to give the Oil of his grace, whereby they might be softened, and to cause the many wounds which we have given unto our consciences, to take away the sense and feeling of it, and so turn unto a deadly Gangrene or incurable Canker. So Augustine saith, that 2it is a just punishment from God, that he who knoweth to do well and doth it not, should also be deprived of the knowledge of well-doing. Thus when the Gentiles sinned in the highest kind against their consciences, and knowing the true God by the light of nature, and by reading in the great Book of the Creatures, did not worship him as God, but fell into grievous Idolatry, and committed spiritual Whoredom with all the Creatures; the Lord (as the Apostle saith) that they might receive ([Greek or Hebrew]) that recompense 3of reward which was due unto their wilful error, gave them over to