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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. 4 The instrumental causes of our sanctification,1 are either external or internal; the external are first the word of God, of which our Saviour speaketh Joh. 15.3. Now are you clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. And cap. 17.17. Sanctify them with thy truth: thy word is truth. So the Apostle James chap. 1.18. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, &c. And the Apostle Peter affirmeth, that we are borne anew not of mortal seed, but of immortal by the word of God, &c. The word of God therefore is an instrumental cause of our sanctification. In which respect also the Ministers, by whose ministry we are converted and regenerate, are said to be our spiritual fathers who have begotten us unto God:2 as appeareth 1. Cor. 4.15. and Philem. vers. 10. in both which places Paul challengeth this title unto himself. Another external cause of our sanctification are the Sacraments, especially the Sacrament of Baptism; whereof it is that Ananias saith unto Paul Act. 22.16. Arise and be baptized & wash away thy sins. 3So Eph. 5.26. it is said that Christ gave himself for his Church, that he might sanctify it and cleanse it by the washing of water through the word. The which places as they are to be understood principally of the washing of justification, whereby we are purged from the guilt and punishment of sin; so also of the washing of sanctification, whereby we are cleansed from the sins and corruptions themselves.
§. Sect. 4 The instrumentall causes of our sanctification,1