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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
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 answering whereof, we are to understand that this act of God in justifying a sinner, is as clearly revealed ordinarily in the Scriptures, as any other thing concerning our salvation, and that every true believer may as certainly conclude by undoubted arguments grounded on Gods infallible ⟨p. 587⟩truth, that he is justified before God, as by natural reason he can prove that he liveth and breatheth. For first our effectual vocation and justification are inseparably linked together by the Apostle Rom. 8.30.1 So that whosoever can prove that he is effectually called, he may also most certainly infer that he is justified. But every true believer may come to the certain knowledge that he is effectually called (as before I have showed at large) and that not by any special revelation, but by the will of God, revealed in his word by the inward testimony of Gods spirit, and the undoubted signs of effectual calling, which he observeth in himself; and therefore without any particular revelation we may attain unto the assurance also that we are justified, that is, that our sins are pardoned for the merits and full satisfaction of Jesus Christ, and we clothed with his righteousness.
For the answering whereof, we are to vnderstand that this act of God in iustifying a sinner, is as cleerely reuealed ordinarily in the Scriptures, as any other thing concerning our saluation, and that euery true beleeuer may as certainly conclude by vndoubted arguments grounded on Gods infallible ⟨p. 587⟩truth, that he is iustified before God, as by naturall reason he can proue that he liueth and breatheth. For first our effectuall vocation and iustification are inseparably linked together by the Apostle Rom. 8.30.1 So that whosoeuer can proue that he is effectually called, he may also most certainly inferre that he is iustified. But euery true beleeuer may come to the certaine knowledge that he is effectually called (as before I haue shewed at large) and that not by any speciall reuelation, but by the will of God, reuealed in his word by the inward testimonie of Gods spirit, and the vndoubted signes of effectuall calling, which he obserueth in himselfe; and therefore without any particular reuelation we may attaine vnto the assurance also that we are iustified, that is, that our sinnes are pardoned for the merits and full satisfaction of Iesus Christ, and we cloathed with his righteousnes.