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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
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§. Sect. 2 Mortification is the first part of sanctification, 1wherein the spirit of God applying unto us the virtue and power of Christs death and burial, doth by little and little weaken, subdue, and kill in us our natural corruption, the flesh and the lusts thereof, so that they are not so powerful as in times past to stir up in our minds evil motions which are contrary to the will and word of God.
§. Sect. 2 Mortification is the first part of sanctification, 1wherein the spirit of God applying vnto vs the vertue and power of Christs death and buriall, doth by little and little weaken, subdue, and kill in vs our naturall corruption, the flesh and the lusts thereof, so that they are not so powrfull as in times past to stirre vp in our mindes euill motions which are contrarie to the will and word of God.
- 1Of Mortification what it is and how it is wrought.
In this description is set down first the cause of our mortification, which is the virtue and efficacy of Christs death and burial,1 communicated and applied unto us by the spirit of God, whereby we are ingrafted into the body of Christ, and so made partakers of the power and virtue of Christs death, which being derived unto us, doth not only take away the guilt and punishment of sin, but also doth mortify and kill our natural corruptions, which heretofore wholly ruled and overswayed us. Secondly, the form manner and progress of this work is here expressed, namely, the weakening, subduing, and killing of our corruption by little and little; so that this work is not perfected at once, and in an instant, but by degrees: first it is weakened and the power thereof somewhat abated, so as though it bear sway in us, yet it doth not wholly overrule us without resistance,