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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. 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, Rom. 6.4. where he saith that we are buried with him by baptism into his death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father, so we also should walk in newness of life.1 So Philip. 3.10, 11. where Paul desireth not only to be clothed with the righteousness of Christ applied by faith for his justification, but also to know and feel the virtue of Christs resurrection, that by this means he might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. And as Paul earnestly desired this, so also he attained unto it, as himself professeth. Galath. 2.20. Thus (saith he) I live,