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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.
§. 2 The description of spiritual Security.
§. 2 The description of spirituall Securitie.
And to this purpose, I thought it necessary to add something of it to the former discourse, hoping that men will with more ease be moved to cast away that intoxicating and pernicious poison, which maketh them to sleep out the tortures of an evil conscience, & depriveth them of their senses, that with them it may take away their fears; when in stead thereof I offer unto them this sovereign Cordial, which will ⟨p. 87⟩expel them, and arm the heart with true Christian courage and resolution. In speaking whereof I will first show what it is, the nature, causes, and effects of it; and then the means whereby we may be enriched with this inestimable treasure. Concerning the first, it may be thus described. Christian security is a grace of God, following our regeneration, justification, and peace with him through Jesus Christ; whereby acknowledging, believing, and remembering the all-seeing wisdom, omnipotent power, infinite goodness and mercy of God towards us in Christ, we do without carnal and servile fear, in all estates and at all times, rest quietly and contentedly upon his promises and providence, for the supplying of all our wants, protection from all dangers, and deliverance from all evils.
And to this purpose, I thought it necessary to adde something of it to the former discourse, hoping that men wil with more ease be moued to cast away that intoxicating and pernicious poyson, which maketh them to sleepe out the tortures of an euil conscience, & depriueth them of their senses, that with them it may take away their feares; when in stead thereof I offer vnto them this soueraigne Cordiall, which will ⟨p. 87⟩