A20762:997
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.
CAP. XXIII.
The last caution is, that our Recreation be a liberal exercise, and not sordid for gain.
The last caution is, that our Recreation be a liberall exercise, and not sordid for gaine.
§. Sect. 1 That greedy gaming for gain is unlawful.
§. Sect. 1 That greedy gaming for gaine is vnlawfull.
The last caution to be observed, is, that we use our recreations as a liberal exercise, and not as a sordid trade to get money. To which end let us know, that if we use gaming with a greedy and covetous desire, to enrich our selves by impoverishing others, it is but an inordinate course, which God never appointed and blessed to get wealth, and consequently no better then theft; yea herein worse then the most thefts, in that other thieves rob strangers, but these commonly their friends and familiar acquaintance, and in that it is committed by mutual agreement, whereby the loser becometh an accessary to the theft of the winner, and so is as well as he a robber, not only of himself, but also of his wife and children. As also because the covetous delight which they take in this kind of gaming, not only robbeth them of their riches; in which respect, the saying of the Wise man may be applied and appropriated hereunto, that he who loveth pleasure, shall be a poor man; but also spoileth them of their hearts, so that