Finally, it is a signe of securitie, when wee content our selues with such a kind of obedience, as ariseth not from spirituall causes, nor is directed to right ends, but is done out of carnall motiues and sinister respects. As when we leaue sinne and performe good duties, not out of Faith, and the true loue and feare of God, but out of selfe-loue and loue of the World. When as we are moued hereunto by pleasure, re∣wards or punishments; and ayme rather at our owne then Gods glo∣rie; and are guided and directed in all our actions, not by the Word of God, but by carnall reason, proceeding, staying and turning backe, as it suggesteth vnto vs, worldly inducements or discouragements. For as it was a signe, that Abraham truely feared God, when as hee * 1.1
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.
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- 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.
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- Downame, John, d. 1652.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20762.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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yeelded absolute obedience to Gods Command and Word, without taking any aduice from carnall reason; so is it a signe of carnall secu∣ritie, when as we only so farre forth take counsaile and direction from the Word of God, as will stand with our carnall reason and affecti∣on, performing those good works, and forsaking those Vices, which we would doe or leaue vndone, though there were no immortalitie of the Soule, no Iudgement; yea, no God to behold vs, and to reward our good, or punish our euill actions.
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* 1.1
Gen. 22. 12.