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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.
§. 5 The grounds of spiritual security, on which it resteth.
§. 5 The grounds of spirituall securitie, on which it resteth.
Fourthly, I lay down the grounds of Christian security whereupon it resteth, namely knowledge, belief, and remembrance of God and his saving attributes. Wherein it is quite contrary to carnal security, which is grounded on the ignorance, not believing, and forgetfulness of them; which the greater they are, the greater is the carnal mans security; even as contrariwise spiritual security increaseth ⟨p. 89⟩in strength, as we do more and more increase in the contrary graces. Fifthly, I show what fear spiritual security expelleth, namely that only which is carnal and servile. For, as for that holy, filial, and spiritual fear of God our gracious Father in Jesus Christ, it is no way opposite to this Christian security, yea, they are mutual causes one of another; and so, the more the one increaseth, the more vigour and strength it ministereth to the other. The more happy we find and feel our selves in our secure resting under Gods protection, the more 1we fear to displease so gracious a Father, under the wings of whose providence we enjoy such sweet security; and the more we fear to offend him, the more secure we are in his love and favour. For, as one saith, nothing can be more safe and secure, then to commit all things unto him, who knoweth how to give most fitly all things profitable to those that fear and serve him.