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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
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.
CHAP. II. Of the effects, subject, object, and time of our sanctification.
CHAP. II. Of the effects, subiect, obiect, and time of our sanctification.
§. Sect. 1 The principal effects of our sanctification,1 are a detestation of our former sins in which we have taken our pleasure and delight, and an hearty love of righteousness and holiness, which before our regeneration ⟨p. 599⟩were loathsome and unpleasant unto us; when notwithstanding our infirmities and often falls we can say with the Apostle Paul, that we would fain do that good we cannot, and hate that evil which we do, and howsoever we cannot perform perfect obedience to all Gods commandments, yet we delight in the law of God in the inner man, 2Rom. 7.15.19.22. Secondly, from these affections of loving good and hating evil, there ariseth an earnest desire to embrace the one and flee the other, and from this desire proceedeth a settled purpose of heart, and a careful endeavour to mortify our flesh with the corruptions thereof, and for the time to come to frame our lives according to the rule of Gods word, the which purpose and endeavour is joined with the diligent use of all good means, whereby we may attain unto our desire. Thirdly, when as this desire and endeavour to lead a godly life is hindered by our spiritual enemies, the flesh, the world and the devil, there followeth in the man regenerate a spiritual combat, wherein he struggleth and striveth to withstand their temptations, and to go forward in his course of holy obedience. And if he prevail and foil his spiritual enemies, then there followeth peace of conscience and joy in the holy Ghost; but if he be overcome and led captive unto sin, through the violence of their temptations, then doth he not lie still and suffer sin to reign in him, but he seeketh to rise again by unfeigned repentance, which is accompanied with these seven fruits: First, a care to leave that sin into which he is fallen. Secondly,