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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 as the Lord suffereth Satan and his imps to try his children for his own glory, so also for their spiritual and everlasting good: for first hereby he chastiseth them for their sins past, and recalleth them to their remembrance, that so they may truly repent of them. And this cause Job speaketh of:1 Job. 13.26. Thou writest (saith he) bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
And as the Lord suffereth Sathan and his impes to trie his children for his owne glorie, so also for their spirituall and euerlasting good: for first hereby he chastizeth them for their sinnes past, and recalleth them to their remembrance, that so they may truly repent of them. And this cause Iob speaketh of:1 Iob. 13.26. Thou writest (saith he) bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.
Secondly, hereby he manifesteth unto us our secret and hidden sins, which the blind eyes of our judgement would not discern, if their sight were not quickened with this sharp water of temptation. For so long as we live in peace, our secure consciences never summon us to the bar of Gods judgement; but when we are roused up by temptation, we enter into a more straight examination of our selves, and search what secret sins lie lurking in the hidden corners of our hearts, that so we may repent of them and make our peace with God, without whose assistance we can have no hope to stand in any temptation.