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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 3 › Chapter 1: Of Sanctification, and the causes thereof.
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.
1For the first, Sanctification is an action of the whole Trinity, whereby the believer already justified, is by little and little renewed according to Gods image in holiness and righteousness, by the mortification of the flesh, with the corruptions thereof, and the quickening of the spirit.
1For the first, Sanctification is an action of the whole Trinitie, whereby the beleeuer already iustified, is by little and little renued according to Gods image in holinesse and righteousnesse, by the mortification of the flesh, with the corruptions thereof, and the quickening of the spirit.
- 1Sanctification, what is it.
And this is our sanctification, which is expressed in the Scriptures by divers names and phrases; for it is called regeneration, the new birth, renovation, the putting off or mortifying ⟨p. 593⟩of the old man, and the putting on or quickening of the new man and such like.
And this is our sanctification, which is expressed in the Scriptures by diuers names and phrases; for it is called regeneration, the new birth, renouation, the putting off or mortifying ⟨p. 593⟩of the old man, and the putting on or quickening of the new man and such like.