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.

§. 12 The eleuenth signe, misse-ap∣plying of the Promises.

The eleuenth signe is, when as we misse-apply the Promises of the Gospell vnto vs, which doe not at all belong vnto vs, because we doe not performe the condition of Faith and Repentance. For as the ea∣ger longing of the sicke patient, after vnholsome meates and drinks, doth shew vnto the skilfull Physician what humour aboundeth, be∣cause it is the nature of euery one of them, to affect that food whereby it is chiefly nourished: so the Worldlings delight in feeding vpon the Promises of the Gospell, doth argue his securitie, seeing this spirituall Manna receiued into a carnall stomacke, doth nourish and much in∣crease this disease, not in it owne nature, but through the malignant propertie of the stomacke that receiueth it, and the grosse abuse of these foolish Patients, who will feed vpon these Cordialls of comfort, before their grosse humours are purged by Faith and Repentance, and so are not helped at all of their diseases, but haue the heat of their Fea∣uer much increased.