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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
Book 2 › Chapter 48: Of our justification.Book 2 › Chapter 48: Of our iustification.
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.
For the first. Justification is an action or work of the whole trinity the father, son, and holy ghost, whereby God graciously and freely imputing unto every faithful man the righteousness and obedience of Christ the mediator doth accept of him and pronounce him to be just and righteous, for the glory of his name and salvation of the believer.
For the first. Iustification is an action orworke of the whole trinitie the father, sonne, and holy ghost, whereby God gratiously and freely imputing vnto euery faithfull man the righteousnesse and obedience of Christ the mediatour doth accept of him and pronounce him to be iust and righteous, for the glorie of his name and saluation of the beleeuer.
The efficient cause of our justification is God alone as appeareth by manifest testimonies. Esa. 43.25. I, 1even I am he that putteth away thine iniquities for my own sake and will not remember thy sins. So Ezech. 16.8. The Lord thus speaketh to his church and people; I spread my skirts over thee and covered thy filthiness. 9. Then I washed thee with water, yea I washed away thy blood from thee and anointed thee with oil. 10.2 I clothed thee with broidered work &c. whereby he signifieth that he purged it with the blood of Christ from all sin, and adorned it with the rich robe of his righteousness. The Apostle likewise saith that it is God who justifieth him who in himself was ungodly. Rom. 4.5. and 8.33. It is God who justifieth, who shall condemn? The reason hereof is manifest because it is the Lord against whom we have sinned, as David speaketh