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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.
And thus you see the death of sin and our natural corruption. Now as in the death of the body there is a certain progress therein, namely, when the dead carcass is also buried; so also there is not only a death of sin,1 but also a burial, the which is wrought by the virtue of Christs burial applied unto us by Gods spirit, whereby it cometh to pass that sin which is already slain and dead, doth so remain and continue; so that this burial of sin is nothing else but the further progress and continuance of our mortification. Of this the Apostle speaketh,2 Rom. 6.4. We are buried then with him by baptism into his death, &c. So Col. 2.12.
And thus you see the death of sinne and our naturall corruption. Now as in the death of the body there is a certaine progresse therein, namely, when the dead carcase is also buried; so also there is not only a death of sinne,1 but also a buriall, the which is wrought by the vertue of Christs buriall applied vnto vs by Gods spirit, whereby it commeth to passe that sinne which is already slaine and dead, doth so remaine and continue; so that this buriall of sinne is nothing else but the further progresse and continuance of our mortification. Of this the Apostle speaketh,2 Rom. 6.4. We are buried then with him by baptisme into his death, &c. So Col. 2.12.