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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Printed at London :: By Felix Kingstone [and William Stansby] for Ed: Weuer & W: Bladen at the north dore of Pauls,
[1622]
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Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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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 16, 2024.
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§. Sect. 4 Of the euils which follow our neglect of seeking God.
Finally, the euils and mischiefes are manifold which follow the neglect of this dutie of seeking God: for Gods power and wrath is against them, to * 1.1 bring vpon them the punishment of their neglect. Hee will withdraw from such his comfortable presence; and by grieuous afflictions enforce vpon them this dutie, which they will not doe cheerefully and of their owne accord, according to that in Hosea: I will goe and returne to my place, till they acknowledge their offence and seeke my face; in their afflictions they will* 1.2seeke me early. They shall not prosper in any thing which they doe or take * 1.3 in hand, as the Lord threateneth the bruitish pastors of Iudah. And as the flowres and plants cannot thriue and flourish, which inioy not the light and warmth of the Sun: so much lesse shall they prosper and grow
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in grace or goodnesse, who neglect to seeke God, and so depriue them∣selues of the comfortable beames of his gracious presence. Finally, the Lord hath threatned to stretch out his hand, and take vengeance on them* 1.4that haue not sought the Lord, nor enquired for him; yea, that he will laugh at their destruction, and delight himselfe in their punishments, as he in∣timateth, by comparing the day of vengeance to a day of solemne sacrifice, vnto which he inuiteth his ghests, that they may be spectatours of these fearefull examples, and glorifie his Iustice in the deserued punishments of those who had not fought him.