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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
OF CARNAL SECURITY. › Book 1 › Chapter 10OF CARNALL SECVRITIE. › Book 1 › Chapter 10
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.
CHAP. X.
Of the means whereby we may be preserved from carnal security. As first avoiding and taking away the causes of it.
Of the meanes whereby we may be preserued from carnall securitie. As first auoyding and taking away the causes of it.
§. 1 The first remedy, is to avoid ignorance, and labour after knowledge.
§. 1 The first remedie, is to auoid ignorance, and labour after knowledge.
BY that which hath been said in the former Chapter, it may manifestly appear, that the sin of carnal security is out of measure sinful, a capital evil, and most dangerous disease of the soul, which is more heartily to be abhorred, and more carefully to be avoided, then the plague, leprosy, or corporal lethargy. But, for as much as it is not sufficient that we see the manifold mischiefs of this Spiritual sickness, and thereby be moved to hate it, and earnestly to desire to be freed from it; unless we also know by what means our desire may be satisfied: I will in the next place propound the preservatives, which may keep us from this disease, and the medicines which may cure and recover us if we be already fallen into it. First, then if we would be cured of this Spiritual lethargy, we must imitate skilful Physicians, who to effect a perfect cure, do labour chiefly to take away the causes of the sickness, and withal to strengthen and confirm the affected part, that being expulsed they may be able to keep them from re-entering. Which not being observed, there can be no perfect cure, but the Patient will be ready, upon the next distemper of heat, cold, or misdiet, to relapse dangerously into his former disease. And if we