A20762:735
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. 3 Of the fruits and benefits which we enjoy by our daily seeking of God.
§. Sect. 3 Of the fruits and benefits which we inioy by our daily seeking of God.
The third point to be considered, is the manifold fruits and benefits which they receive and enjoy who thus daily seek God. For first, they 1shall not be confounded by any shame, nor with the malice and might of all their enemies, according to that of the Psalmist, Let not those that seek thee, be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. Their infirmities shall not be laid to their charge, nor their imperfections, corruptions and failings in performing the duties of Gods service; as appeareth by the prayer of Hezekiah for them, who had prepared their hearts to seek God, 2whom God pardoned, though they were not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuary. They shall not lose their labour, nor spend their strength in vain; for the Lord hath promised that those who thus seek him, shall surely find him. If thou seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, 3if thou seek him with all thine heart. So Azariah telleth Asa and the people, that the Lord would be with them, while they were with him: and if 4they sought him, he would be found of them; the which he confirmeth by the experience which their fathers had hereof in former times, even as afterwards they found the Word of God in his mouth confirmed in their own experience; for no sooner did they set themselves to seek the Lord with their whole desire, but he was found of them, and the Lord gave them rest round 5about. And as we shall by seeking God be freed from all evil, so shall we have the fruition of all good; for we shall enjoy God himself, and he will dwell in us as in his Temple, and communicate himself unto us as unto his love and Spouse. Neither will he come empty-handed, but bring with him his rich rewards: and as he is infinitely good in himself, so will he be good unto them that wait for him, and to the soul that seeketh him. He