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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.
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Lastly,1 our Saviour Christ Joh. 3.14.15. maketh this comparison. As Moses lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the son of man be lift up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. From which we may thus reason; As the Israelites who were stung with fiery serpents, were cured not by any outward means of physic and surgery, or any thing in themselves, save only by looking upon the brazen serpent, which for this purpose was set up by Gods commandment; so we being stung of the old serpent, with the sting of sin cannot be cured by any means without or within our selves, but by beholding the true substance Christ Jesus, signified by this shadow, with the eye of faith.
Lastly,1 our Sauiour Christ Ioh. 3.14.15. maketh this comparison. As Moses lift vp the serpent in the wildernesse, so must the sonne of man be lift vp, that whosoeuer beleeueth in him should not perish but haue eternall life. From which we may thus reason; As the Isralites who were stung with fierie serpents, were cured not by any outward meanes of physicke and surgerie, or any thing in themselues, saue onely by looking vpon the brasen serpent, which for this purpose was set vp by Gods commaundement; so we being stung of the old serpent, with the sting of sinne cannot be cured by any meanes without or within our selues, but by beholding the true substance Christ Iesus, signified by this shadow, with the eye of faith.