A20762:3160
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 The eighth remedy is to use carefully the means of salvation.
§. 9 The eighth remedie is to vse carefully the meanes of saluation.
The eighth means is, that we diligently use the means of salvation, seeing they are also the means of implanting the fear of God 1in our hearts, and so removing and rooting out of this carnal security. As first the careful and conscionable hearing of the Word, which is that Plough and Harrow that breaketh up the fallow grounds ⟨p. 70⟩of our hearts, and that bruiseth and maketh them contrite, so as they are fit to receive the seeds of all spiritual graces; that Hammer which breaketh these rocks in pieces, and that Fire which melteth and dissolveth those metals that cannot be broken, as Jeremiah speaketh: and 2finally that Sword of the Spirit which giveth a deadly wound to carnal security, whilst it layeth open the heinousness of sin, the wrath of God, and curse of the law due unto it, the rewards promised unto those who fear the Lord, and the punishments denounced against those who live in their security, both in this life and the life to come. Neither is it possible that we should long sleep in carnal security, if we leave our ears open to receive the voice of these sons of thunder speaking unto us. Especially, let us withal diligence hearken unto those admonitions and exhortations which are purposely used by the holy Ghost, to rouse us up out of this sleep of security. As that admonition of our Saviour. Watch therefore, for ye know not 3