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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. 2 The which temptation if we would withstand in the day of trial,1 it behooveth us not to rest in the remembrance of our former faith and repentance, but as we have renewed our sin, so also must we renew our sorrow for it, bewailing our corruptions, which have so prevailed against us as to move us to transgress Gods commandments, hating and detesting our sin into which we have fallen, and purposing for the time to come to leave and forsake it, and to serve the Lord in holiness and newness of life. And this our repentance we must approve to be unfeigned by those fruits thereof which the Apostle mentioneth, 2. Cor. 7.9, 10, 11. that is, we must study and endeavour to amend,2 confess our sin unto God in all humility, and most earnestly crave remission both of the fault and punishment, have a godly indignation against our selves because we have sinned, and a sonlike fear not so much in respect of the punishment, as of offending and displeasing God our most gracious loving father; and an earnest desire that we may be so renewed, that we be not again so overtaken; a more fervent zeal in loving God and keeping his commandments than before our fall; and lastly, we must take a holy revenge of our selves, that thereby we may so tame our flesh, that it may not hereafter be so powerful in us, as to overcome and lead us captive unto sin.
§ Sect. 2 The which temptation if wee would withstand in the day of triall,1 it behooueth vs not to rest in the remembrance of our former faith and repentance, but as wee haue renewed our sinne, so also must we renew our sorrow for it, bewailing our corruptions, which haue so preuailed against vs as to moue vs to transgresse Gods commandements, hating and detesting our sinne into which wee haue fallen, and purposing for the time to come to leaue and forsake it, and to serue the Lord in holinesse and newnesse of life. And this our repentance wee must approue to be vnfained by those fruites thereof which the Apostle mentioneth, 2. Cor. 7.9, 10, 11. that is, wee must studie and endeuour to amend,