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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.
Our want of sense therefore of Gods love and favour doth not argue want of faith, for our faith is not grounded upon our sense and feeling, but upon Gods gracious promises, immutable goodness, and infallible truth, and if ever we have tasted of Gods love and mercy, whatsoever we apprehend in our present sense and feeling, faith concludeth that we are still in his love and favour, for he is without change or shadow of change as the apostle speaketh, Jam. 1.17. and whom he loveth to the end he loveth them, 1as our Saviour hath taught us. Joh. 13.1.2
Our want of sense therefore of Gods loue and fauour doth not argue want of faith, for our faith is not grounded vppon our sense and feeling, but vppon Gods gratious promises, immutable goodnesse, and infallible truth, and if euer we haue tasted of Gods loue and mercie, whatsoeuer wee apprehend in our present sense and feeling, faith concludeth that we are still in his loue and fauour, for he is without change or shadow of change as the apostle speaketh, Iam. 1.17. and whom he loueth to the ende hee loueth them, 1as our Sauiour hath taught vs. Ioh. 13.1.2