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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. 3 And thus much concerning the principal efficient cause of our sanctification:1 the motive cause which moved the Lord to sanctify us, was his own mercy and Christs merits. The first is expressed by the Apostle 1. Pet. 1.3. whereas it is said,2 that God according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again, &c. The other is implied by Paul Eph. 2.5. where he saith, that God hath quickened us in Christ;3 who by his death merited not only the remission of sin for us, but also Gods spirit, whereby we are sanctified. So that it was not any good inclination unto holiness in us, or any thing else wherein we excelled others, which moved God to sanctify us,4 for we were all alike the children of wrath and dead in our sins, but only his own boundless mercy and the all-sufficient merits of Christ our Saviour, were the only causes which moved the Lord to give us his spirit, whereby we are regenerate and raised from the death of sin to holiness and newness of life. And therefore let us not arrogate the praise of our sanctification in whole or in part unto ⟨p. 596⟩our selves, but ascribe all the glory to God who is the sole author and finisher of it.
§. Sect. 3 And thus much concerning the principall efficient cause of our sanctification:1 the motiue cause which mooued the Lord to sanctifie vs, was his owne mercie and Christs merits. The first is expressed by the Apostle 1. Pet. 1.3. whereas it is said,2 that God according to his abundant mercie hath begotten vs again, &c. The other is implied by Paul