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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 50: That faith alone justifieth.Book 2 › Chapter 50: That faith alone iustifieth.
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. L. That faith alone justifieth.
CHAP. L. That faith alone iustifieth.
§. Sect. 1 And thus much concerning the first point,1 namely that we are nor justified by works: the second is that we are justified by faith alone: whereby we are not to understand that faith by it own virtue, or as it is a faculty, habit, work or action in us, doth justify ⟨p. 578⟩us, but as it is the alone instrument whereby we do apprehend & apply unto us Christ Jesus, his righteousness & obedience, by which only righteousness which is out of our selves in Christ as the proper subject thereof, being offered in the word and Sacraments, and applied by faith we are justified in Gods sight,2 as appeareth Phil. 2.9. Secondly whereas we say that faith alone justifieth, we do not understand such a faith, as is alone without works, charity, and other sanctifying graces, which were nothing else but imaginary dead, and but as it were a carcass of faith which breatheth not; but that amongst all other graces, virtues & faculties of the soul faith alone, and not any of them is the instrument whereby we apply Christ Jesus unto us, who being thus applied doth justify us.