A20762:352
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.
§. Sect. 2 The second sign is taken from the manner of working this good conscience.
§. Sect. 2 The second signe is taken from the manner of working this good conscience.
The second sign, is the manner of working this good conscience. For it is not wrought by worldly persuasions, taken from our credit, pleasure, or profit, but by the ministry of the Word, begetting faith in us, whereby the heart and conscience is purified. And this it doth first, by terrifying it with the sight and sense of our sins, and the punishments due unto them, whereby we are humbled, and brought to despair of our own strength, for our recovery out of our misery; and then by pacifying and comforting it, by offering unto us in Christ the free pardon of our sins, reconciliation with God, and the eternal salvation of our souls. So that here the saying is truly verified, that peace is the daughter of war; for if our consciences have had no conflict with Gods justice, and the curse of the Law, and have not been truly humbled in the sense of his wrath, and the enmity which hath been between him and us, our peace is carnal and corrupt, springing not from assurance of faith, but from security and presumption, which have caused this ease, not by recovery of health, but through the numbness and stupidity of the disease.
The second signe, is the manner of working this good conscience. For it is not wrought by worldly perswasions, taken from our credit, pleasure, or profit, but by the ministery of the Word, begetting faith in vs, whereby the heart and conscience is purified. And this it doth first, by terrifying it with the sight and sense of our sinnes, and the punishments due vnto them, whereby we are humbled, and brought to despaire of our owne strength, for our recouery out of our misery; and then by pacifying and comforting it, by offering vnto vs in Christ the free pardon of our sinnes, reconciliation with God, and the eternall saluation of our soules. So that heere the saying is truely verified, that peace is the daughter of warre; for if our consciences haue had no conflict with Gods iustice, and the curse of the Law, and haue not beene truly humbled in the sense of his wrath, and the enmitie which hath beene betweene him and vs, our peace is carnall and corrupt, springing not from assurance of faith, but from securitie and presumption, which haue caused this ease, not by recouery of health, but through the numnesse and stupidity of the disease.