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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. 3 But here the tempter will object unto the weak Christian, that these promises of the Gospel can yield unto him no sound comfort,1 seeing they are restrained to those only who are members of Christ Jesus, in which number are none but those who are regenerate, renewed, and governed by Gods spirit, according to that Rom. 8.1. There is no condemnation to those which are in Christ Jesus, which walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. But thou (will he say) art not in Christ, for being ingrafted in this vine thou wouldest bring forth the grapes of godliness, whereas there springeth nothing from thee but the briars and brambles of iniquity; neither walkest thou after the spirit, for then in thy life thou wouldest show the fruits thereof, but after the flesh, which wholly overruleth thee and casteth thee headlong into all sin and wickedness.
§. Sect. 3 But here the tempter will obiect vnto the weake Christian, that these promises of the Gospell can yeeld vnto him no sound comfort,1 seeing they are restrained to those onely who are members of Christ Iesus, in which number are none but those who are regenerate, renewed, and gouerned by Gods spirit, according to that Rom. 8.1. There is no condemnation to those which are in Christ Iesus, which walke not after the flesh but after the spirit. But thou (will hee say) art not in Christ, for being ingrafted in this vine thou wouldest bring foorth the grapes of godlinesse, whereas there springeth nothing from thee but the briars and brambles of iniquitie; neither walkest thou after the spirit, for then in thy life thou wouldest shew the fruites thereof, but after the flesh, which wholy ouerruleth thee and casteth thee headlong into all sin and wickednesse.
- 1Sathans temptation persuading us that we are still in the flesh. Rom. 8.1.Sathans temptation perswading vs that we are still in the flesh.