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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.
so let us use all good means to weaken the strength of sin, and to mortify our carnal affections, and then we shall suffer them to be quite cut off and taken from us without any extraordinary passion or sense of pain.
so let vs vse all good meanes to weaken the strength of sinne, and to mortifie our carnall affections, and then we shall suffer them to be quite cut off and taken from vs without any extraordinarie passion or sense of paine.
§. Sect. 4 And so much concerning our mortification,1 wherein the spirit of God communicating and applying unto us the virtue and efficacy of Christs resurrection, doth raise us up from the death of sin to holiness and newness of life.
§. Sect. 4 And so much concerning our mortification,1 wherein the spirit of God communicating and applying vnto vs the vertue and efficacie of Christs resurrection, doth raise vs vp from the death of sinne to holinesse and newnesse of life.
- 1Of Vivification, what it is, and the causes thereof.Of Viuification, what it is, and the causes thereof.
The cause of our vivification is the virtue and efficacy of Christs resurrection applied unto us by Gods spirit; the which virtue flowing from his deity, was first powerful in his own flesh, raising it out of grave, and giving it victory over sin and death, and being derived from our head, and communicated unto us who are members of his body, it doth also revive us who were dead in our sins, and enableth us to lead a new life in holiness and righteousness, according to the rule of Gods word. This appeareth,