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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. 6 That idleness maketh us liable to many punishments.
§. Sect. 6 That idlenesse maketh vs liable to many punishments.
Secondly, as idleness and negligence in our callings produceth these manifold evils of sin; so is it no less fruitful in bringing forth the evils of punishment, both in this life and in the life to come. For first, as it is the root of all sin, so by consequence it generally bringeth with it all punishments that these sins deserve, of which it is the cause and root, seeing they are but the after-fruits of the same tree. Besides which, it may be truly and properly said to be the cause of divers special punishments. As first, of poverty and penury of all Gods blessings, through neglect of the works of our callings, which are the ordinary means ordained by him, whereby he deriveth unto us his gifts and benefits. And this Solomon often affirmeth, and much beateth upon in many places: He becometh poor, that dealeth with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. The 1soul of the sluggard desireth and hath nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he 2beg in harvest and have nothing. Love not sleep, lest thou come unto poverty, open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. Yea it is punished, not only with want of riches, but also of necessaries, and with pinching hunger the worst of all corporal evils; For slothfulness casteth into a deep 3sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. For as they have no store of their own, but want in others greatest plenty, and beg through extreme penury, even in the time of harvest; so do they deserve by their slothfulness to be neglected of others, and harden the hearts of those who are able and willing to give, so as they think it no Alms-deed to relieve them out of ⟨p. 257⟩