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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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Thirdly, that which the Gospel assureth us of, we need not to make any doubt thereof, or once call it into question: but the Gospel assureth us, that whosoever believeth in Christ Jesus, and truly repent them of their sins, shall be made partakers of all the gracious promises of life and salvation therein contained; So Joh. 3.16.1 God so loved the world that he hath given his only begotten son, that whosoever ⟨p. 588⟩believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. And chap. 5.24.2 Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but hath passed from death to life. 3And Matth. 11.28. Come unto me all ye that labour and are laden, and I will ease you. And therefore whosoever believe in Jesus Christ, approving their faith to the world and their own consciences, to be true and unfeigned, by the fruit thereof, unfeigned repentance, he may assure himself of all the gracious promises of the Gospel, and consequently of the remission of his sins, and his justification for the merits and righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Thirdly, that which the Gospell assureth vs of, we neede not to make any doubt thereof, or once call it into question: but the Gospell assureth vs, that whosoeuer beleeueth in Christ Iesus, and truely repent them of their sinnes, shall be made partakers of all the gracious promises of life and saluation therein contained; So Ioh. 3.16.1 God so loued the world that he hath giuen his onely begotten sonne, that whosoeuer ⟨p. 588⟩