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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.
CHAP. I. That all the godly are assaulted with the spiritual enemies of their salvation.
CHAP. I. That all the godly are assaulted with the spirituall enemies of their saluation.
§. Sect. 1 THE Apostle having showed the mystery of our salvation and the causes thereof for the confirmation of our faith in the three first chapters of his Epistle to the Ephesians, and afterwards in the other chapters having set down divers duties both generally belonging to all Christians, and also particularly appertaining to men of sundry conditions, that he might move them to repentance and amendment of life; in the next place like the Lords Sentinel doth discover and give us warning of the approach of mighty enemies, willing us to arm our selves at all points in our own defence, and courageously to stand under the standard of Christ Jesus, that we may be continually in readiness to endure the encounter, chap. 6.10, 11, &c.1 Whereby he giveth us to understand, that as soon as we seek for assurance of salvation in Christ, and endeavour to serve the Lord in a holy and a Christian life, we are to prepare our selves for a combat, unless we would suddenly be surprised; for the spiritual enemies of our salvation bandy themselves against us as ⟨p. 2⟩soon as we have given our names unto God, and taken upon us the profession and practise of Christianity, which are the livery and cognisance of our heavenly Lord and Master. And this is manifest by the example of Gods children from time to tim• […] though they lived in peace and security before th•• […]tained into Gods family, yet no sooner were […] itted to be of Gods household servants, but Satan and the world have raged against them, labouring both by inward temptations and outward fury, either to withdraw them from Gods service by flattering enticements, or utterly to destroy and overthrow them by open violence. No sooner had Abel offered a sacrifice of sweet smelling savour unto God,