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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
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.
I called to remembrance my song in the night, namely his songs of thanksgiving, whereby he had praised God for his great benefits, and vers. 11. I remembered the works of the Lord, certainly I remembered thy wonders of old. 1So the holy man Job apprehending and conceiving of God as of his enemy, in respect of his present sense and feeling, and being moved by his friends to doubt of his graces, which he had received and to condemn himself for an hypocrite, comforteth himself and strengtheneth his faith in the middest of all these grievous tentations, by calling to his remembrance his fruits of faith and works of sanctification, which he had discerned in himself in former times, as appeareth Chap. 31. Whose example if the children of God in like distress will follow, how miserable soever they are in their present sense and feeling, yet they may receive unto themselves comfort, because Gods gifts and calling are without repentance.
I called to remembrance my song in the night, namely his songs of thanksgiuing, whereby he had praised God for his great benefits, and vers. 11. I remembred the workes of the Lord, certainely I remembred thy wonders of old. 1So the holy man Iob apprehending and conceyuing of God as of his enemie, in respect of his present sense and feeling, and being mooued by his friends to doubt of his graces, which he had receiued and to condemne himselfe for an hypocrite, comforteth himselfe and strengtheneth his faith in the middest of al these grieuous tentations, by calling to his remembrance his fruits of faith and workes of sanctification, which he had discerned in himselfe in former times, as appeareth Chap. 31. Whose example if the children of God in like distresse will follow, how miserable soeuer they are in their present sense and feeling, yet they may receaue vnto themselues comfort, because Gods gifts and calling are without repentance.