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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.
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§. Sect. 2 Now further we are to know,1 that as all other works of God which he exerciseth towards his creatures, so this work of sanctification likewise is common unto the three persons in the Trinity: for first God the Father sanctifieth us by giving us his son and sending his spirit, and therefore this work is ascribed unto him, Tit. 3.5. Eph. 2.4.5. God the son sanctifieth us, by mortifying our sins by virtue of his blood, purging our consciences from dead works, that we may serve the living God, and by virtue of his resurrection raising us also from the death of sin to newness of life: and lastly, by his death hath merited for us Gods spirit, and rising again hath sent him unto us, whereby we are regenerate: and therefore he also is said to have sanctified us, and God is said to have sanctified us in him,2 Eph. 5.26. 1. Cor. 2.11. God the holy Ghost also sanctifieth us, by applying the ⟨p. 595⟩virtue of Christs death and resurrection unto us, and so immediately beginneth, continueth,3 and perfecteth this work in us, and therefore most usually in the Scriptures this work is ascribed unto him, Joh. 3.5, 6. Act. 11.16. Tit. 3.5.
§. Sect. 2 Now further wee are to know,1 that as all other workes of God which he exerciseth towards his creatures, so this work of sanctification likewise is common vnto the three persons in the Trinitie: for first God the Father sanctifieth vs by giuing vs his sonne and sending his spirit, and therefore this work is ascribed vnto him,