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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. 4 Of the evils which follow our neglect of seeking God.
§. Sect. 4 Of the euils which follow our neglect of seeking God.
Finally, the evils and mischiefs are manifold which follow the neglect of this duty of seeking God: for Gods power and wrath is against them, to 1bring upon them the punishment of their neglect. He will withdraw from such his comfortable presence; and by grievous afflictions enforce upon them this duty, which they will not do cheerfully and of their own accord, according to that in Hosea: I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face; in their afflictions they will 2seek me early. They shall not prosper in any thing which they do or take 3in hand, as the Lord threateneth the brutish pastors of Judah. And as the flowers and plants cannot thrive and flourish, which enjoy not the light and warmth of the Sun: so much less shall they prosper and grow ⟨p. 196⟩in grace or goodness, who neglect to seek God, and so deprive themselves of the comfortable beams of his gracious presence. Finally, the Lord hath threatened to stretch out his hand, and take vengeance on them 4that have not sought the Lord, nor enquired for him; yea, that he will laugh at their destruction, and delight himself in their punishments, as he intimateth, by comparing the day of vengeance to a day of solemn sacrifice, unto which he inviteth his guests, that they may be spectators of these fearful examples, and glorify his Justice in the deserved punishments of those who had not fought him.