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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 11OF CARNALL SECVRITIE. › Book 1 › Chapter 11
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. XI.
Wherein are set down divers other remedies whereby we may be preserved from carnal security.
Wherein are set downe diuers other remedies whereby we may be preserued from carnall securitie.
§. 1 The first remedy is, to withstand security in the first degrees of it.
§. 1 The first remedie is, to withstand securitie in the first degrees of it.
Besides those means of preserving and delivering us from carnal security by removing the causes of it, of which I have entreated in the former Chapter; there are divers others remaining, which are now to be spoken of. And first, if we would avoid security and hardness of heart in the highest degrees, we must shun the first beginnings of it, ⟨p. 73⟩and carefully foresee and fear it long before it comes. For then we may prevent it, by using those good means, which are fit for this purpose, of which I have spoken in part, and shall more fully handle them in the following discourse. But if it have once seized upon us, then it will be too late, by any thing that our selves can do to come out of it, because it taketh away all spiritual sense and feeling, so as we shall have neither will nor power to use any means to be freed from it. We must with all care and providence shun this Viper, that it may not come near us, or presently apply remedies as soon as we are stung, seeing it will be too late when as the poison hath over-spread our souls, and hath made us to be altogether stupid and senseless. It is the sleep of the soul, and therefore it will be too late to come out of it, when we are fallen deeply into it, seeing it depriveth us of the use of our spiritual senses, so as we know not our estate, but rather dream that we are waking, and exercised in such duties as God requireth; but as soon as we feel it approaching by our stretching and yawning, when we are about good duties, our coldness and dullness, our slackness and negligence in holy exercises, which we have formerly performed with pleasure and cheerfulness; or when we are falling into a slumber, and (as it were) nod in our sincerity and zeal, so as we have some sense of our estate, and are so much waking, as that we know that we are ready to sleep; so as we may say with the Spouse in the Canticles; I sleep, but my heart waketh; and are