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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. 14 1Secondly, he leaveth in us corruptions and imperfections, to the end that we should not rest in our own righteousness for our justification and salvation (which though it were as great as Adams in the state of innocency, yet it were no sure ground to rest upon) but in the alone righteousness of Christ Jesus, which is all-sufficient and a foundation so unremovable, that all the power of hell cannot overturn it, nor any that are built upon it. Upon which sure pillar we would hardly rely, so long as we have in our hand the reed of our own righteousness, we being naturally inclined rather to seek for salvation in our selves than elsewhere.
§. Sect. 14 1Secondly, he leaueth in vs corruptions and imperfections, to the end that wee should not rest in our owne righteousnes for our iustification and saluation (which though it were as great as Adams in the state of innocencie, yet it were no sure ground to rest vpon) but in the alone righteousnesse of Christ Iesus, which is all-sufficient and a foundation so vnremoueable, that all the power of hell cannot ouerturne it, nor any that are built vpon it. Vpon which sure pillar wee would hardly relie, so long as we haue in our hand the reede of our owne righteousnesse, wee being naturallie inclined rather to seeke for saluation in our selues than elsewhere.
- 1That we may be moved to rest on Christ alone.That we may be moued to rest on Christ alone.
§. Sect. 15 1Thirdly, he leaveth in us these spiritual enemies, that we may exercise our selves in fighting against them, and so be kept from idleness the mother and nurse of all evil; and as he would not at once cast out the Canaanites before the Israelites, but by little and little; least the land should grow unto a wilderness, and the wild beasts should multiply against them: so he would not suddenly cast out our spiritual enemies, but suffereth us to prevail against them by little and little, least giving our selves unto idleness when there is no opposition made against us, there grow in us as in a wilderness the noisome weeds and thorns of sin, and the wild beasts of all outrageous wickedness, which would devour and utterly destroy us. Whereas contrariwise when we are assaulted outwardly with the forces of satan and the world, and inwardly with the flesh and our natural corruptions, we have enemies against whom we may exercise our faith, affiance, hope, patience, courage, and all other graces which we have received, and by exercise increase them: we fight the Lords battles like his valiant soldiers, and being assisted by his holy spirit we obtain victory, and with our conquest