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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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Though then our sense of Gods love fail yet may our faith continue strong, as appeareth plainly in the example of Job, who though he conceived of God in his sense and feeling that he had hidden his face from him & took him for his enemy, though he seemed to write bitter things against him and made him to possess the sins of his youth, yet by a lively faith he still rested and relied upon him, protesting that though he should slay him yet he would trust in him. as appeareth Job. 13.15.1 Yea our Saviour Christ himself who could not sin through infidelity, in respect of his present sense and feeling complaineth that God had forsaken him.
Though then our sense of Gods loue fayle yet may our faith continue strong, as appeareth plainely in the example of Iob, who though he conceiued of God in his sense and feeling that he had hiddē his face frō him & took him for his enemy, though he seemed to write bitter things against him and made him to possesse the sinnes of his youth, yet by a liuely faith he still rested and relied vpon him, protesting that though he should slay him yet hee would trust in him. as appeareth Iob. 13.15.1 Yea our Sauiour Christ himselfe who could not sinne through infidelitie, in respect of his present sense and feeling complayneth that God had forsaken him.
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