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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.
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.
The efficient cause of our sanctification is God himself, who as he alone justifieth us and freeth us from the guilt and punishment of sin, so he only sanctifieth us and delivereth us from the tyranny of sin, so that it shall no longer reign in our mortal bodies, freeing us in such measure as pleaseth him from our natural corruptions,1 which heretofore wholly overswayed us. And this appeareth by plain testimonies of holy Scriptures.2 John 1.13. It is said that the faithful are borne, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 3So Ephes. 2.10. we are said to be Gods workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works: which phrase the Apostle useth to note unto us, that as God only did create us, so he only doth renew and regenerate us. The Lord likewise doth appropriate this work unto himself as belonging to another.