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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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CHAP. IX. Satan's temptations whereby he aggravateth our sins in general, answered.
CHAP. IX. Sathans temptations whereby he aggrauateth our sinnes in generall, answered.
§ Sect. 1 And so much concerning those temptations of Satan, 1which he groundeth upon our natural corruptions and our small measure of sanctification. Now we are to speak of such as he suggesteth after we have committed some actual sins: and these are either in respect of our sins in general, or else some special sin into which we have fallen. Concerning the first, when the weak Christian (who hath a tender conscience, and therefore cannot be persuaded to lie securely in his sin) hath through the strength of his own corruptions, and violence of his temptations, committed any sin against his knowledge and conscience, then doth the tempter (who before his fall exceedingly extenuated & minced his sin, now after that he is fallen into it) out of measure aggravate the grievousness and heinousness of his offence, partly in respect of the nature and quality of the sin it self, and partly in respect of the circumstances, as being committed after his calling, against his knowledge, in such a time or place, & by such a person, as God is thereby most dishonoured, and his brethren offended by his bad example. And thus having as it were stretched out his sin upon the tenters of his temptations, and with the blasts of his false suggestions made of every small drop a great bubble, then doth he also set before him the curse of the law, Gods fearful judgements, the plagues and punishments of this life, and everlasting death and condemnation in the life to come, continually accusing and terrifying him as being guilty of all these fearful evils, by reason of his sins, to the end that hereby being utterly discouraged, he