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The Christian warfare wherein is first generally showed the malice, power and politic stratagems…The Christian warfare wherein is first generally shewed the malice, power and politike stratagems…
The Christian warfare wherein is first generally showed the malice, power and politic stratagems of the spiritual enemies of our salvation, Satan and his assistants the world and the flesh, with the means also whereby the Christian may withstand and defeat them : and afterwards more specially their particular temptations, against the several causes and means of our salvation, whereby on the one side they allure us to security and presumption, and on the other side, draw us to doubting and desperation, are expressed and answered : written especially for their sakes who are exercised in the spiritual conflict of temptations, and are afflicted in conscience in the sight and sense of their sins / by I. Downame ...The Christian warfare wherein is first generally shewed the malice, power and politike stratagems of the spirituall ennemies of our saluation, Sathan and his assistants the world and the flesh, with the meanes also whereby the Christian may vvithstand and defeate them : and afterwards more speciallie their particvlar temptatiions, against the seuerall causes and meanes of our saluation, whereby on the one side they allure vs to security and presumption, and on the other side, draw vs to doubting and desperation, are expressed and answered : written especially for their sakes who are exercised in the spirituall conflict of temptations, and are afflicted in conscience in the sight and sense of their sinnes / by I. Dovvname ...
London: printed for Cuthbert Burby, 1604
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§. Sect. 9 1Yea (will the tempter say) but how wilt thou know that this battle is fought in thee, how canst thou be assured that it is the spirit of God which fighteth in thee against thy spiritual enemies, and not rather thine own tumultuous passions and perturbations; and divers tentations suggested by the same devil. To which it is easy to make answer, for neither doth the flesh fight against satan, nor satan against the flesh, nor either of them against themselves, for so their kingdom being divided could not possibly stand,2 as our saviour Christ himself hath taught us Mat. 12.25.26. And therefore it must needs be sone other force which causeth this opposition which can proceed from nothing else but the spirit of God.
§. Sect. 9 1Yea (will the tempter say) but how wilt thou know that this battle is fought in thee, how canst thou be assured that it is the spirite of God which fighteth in thee against thy spirituall enemies, and not rather thine owne tumultuous passions and perturbations; and diuers tentations suggested by the same diuell. To which it is easie to make answere, for neither doth the flesh fight against sathan, nor sathan against the flesh, nor either of thē against thēselues, for so their kingdome being deuided could not possibly stand,2 as our sauiour Christ himselfe hath taught vs Mat. 12.25.26. And therefore it must needs be sōe other force which causeth this oppositiō which can proceede from nothing else but the spirit of God.
- 1How we may know that this combat is fought between the flesh and the spirit.How we may know that this combate is fought betweene the flesh and the spirite.
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