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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.
§. Sect. 2 Of the means of affiance.
§. Sect. 2 Of the meanes of affiance.
Now the means whereby we may attain unto this firm affiance, are these: The first is the often consideration of Gods saving attributes, as of his omniscience, whereby he taketh notice of all our wants and dangers; of his omnipotency, and all-sufficiency, whereby he is able to relieve and preserve us; of his providence, which in especial manner watcheth over us who are his sons and children, to dispose of all things to our 1good; of his mercy, bounty, goodness, and truth of his promises, whereby we may be assured of his good will and readiness to help us. The second means is, to observe Gods mercy and goodness in time past, showed both towards others and towards our selves, in freeing us from evil, and procuring our good. We must consider what God hath done formerly to others, assuring our selves that he is ready to do the like for us, if with them we fear and serve him, seeing he is no respectre of persons, 2but is alike to all. So David confirmed his affiance in God, by remembering his goodness towards their ancestors; Our fathers trusted in thee, 3they trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them; they cried upon thee, and were delivered; they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. So when he could with no comfort rest upon God in his present sense and feeling, he remembered ⟨p. 107⟩Gods wonders of old, in delivering his people Israel, and drowning their 4enemies in the red Sea. And thus he saith, others would confirm their affiance by his example. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved