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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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§. Sect. 2 For the first,1 he will labour to persuade us that it is not the righteousness of Jesus Christ, imputed unto us by God and apprehended and applied unto us by faith, whereby we are justified in Gods sight, for this imputative righteousness is but merely putative and imaginary but by that inherent righteousness which is in our selves; for Christ (will he say) did not fulfil the law & died, that this his righteousness & obedience should become ours by imputation, but he died for us to the end he might merit for us the spirit of God, which should infuse into us an inherent righteousness, & he shed his blood to the end that our good works being dipped and died therein, might become perfect and so justify us in Gods sight; and therefore that we are not justified by faith alone, but by our other graces and virtues also, and our good works proceeding from them; neither by faith at all as it is an instrument which applieth Christ and his benefits unto us, but as it is a ⟨p. 572⟩grace or virtue infused into our selves. Against which tentation it behooveth us most carefully to arm our selves as being most dangerous and pernicious, for it robbeth God and our saviour Christ of the whole glory of our justification and salvation, and deriveth some, yea the greatest portion unto our selves, as being chiefly justified by our own means; and also it depriveth our souls of all true comfort and full assurance that we are justified & saved, by taking out of our hands the strong staff of our salvation, the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ and by putting into them the weak reed of our own works, which will presently break and fail us, when we most rest upon it, and so we shall unrecoverably fall into the horrible pit of deep desperation, when as we are abandoned of our chief hope, that is, when on the one side the huge weight of our grievous sins, and on the other side the great imperfection of our most perfect righteousness, and the filthy pollution of our most glorious works appear unto us.
§. Sect. 2 For the first,1 he will labour to perswade vs that it is not the righteousnesse of Iesus Christ, imputed vnto vs by God and apprehended and applied vnto vs by faith, whereby wee are iustified in Gods sight, for this imputatiue righteousnesse is but meerely putatiue and imaginacy but by that inhaerent righteousnes which is in our selues; for Christ (will he say) did not fulfil the law & died, that this his righteousnes & obediēce should become ours by imputation, but he died for vs to the end he might merite for vs the spirit of God, which should infuse into vs an inhaerent righteousnes, & he shed his blood to the end that our good workes being dipped and died therein, might become perfect and so iustifie vs in Gods sight; and therefore that wee are not iustified by faith alone, but by our other graces and vertues also, and our good workes proceedding from them; neither by faith at all as it is an instrument which applieth Christ and his benefits vnto vs, but as it is a