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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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CHAP. XLIX. That we are not justified by our works and merits.
CHAP. XLIX. That we are not iustified by our workes and merites.
§. Sect. 1 And so much briefly of the doctrine of Justification.1 Now we are to speak of and to answer such tentations as are suggested by our spiritual enemy, to the end that he may persuade us that we are not justified, or that he may move us to seek for justification where it is not to be had, and so in the mean time neglect it where only it is to be found, and the alone means whereby it is to be enjoyed. In speaking whereof I shall not need to handle things so largely as those points which went before, partly because our justification doth inseparably follow our effectual calling, and therefore he that is assured of the one needs not to doubt of the other, partly because the most of those tentations which Satan suggesteth to impugn and make void our assurance that we are justified are already answered, namely those which concern the remission of our sins, ⟨p. 571⟩and true faith in Jesus Christ, and partly because those tentations which Satan suggesteth into the minds of afflicted christians are the self same which the limbs of Satan the antichrist of Room and all his apostatical synagogue do hold and defend; and therefore I shall not need to entreat hereof at large because these points in controversy have been already and will be hereafter so copiously, learnedly, and religiously handled by others of greater abilities, and far more excellent gifts.
§. Sect. 1 ANd so much breefely of the doctrine of Iustification.