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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.
yet after the sin is committed, and the good motions of the spirit are again revived out of their deadly swoon, then do they hate and detest that sin which before seemed pleasant unto them and earnestly desire with the Apostle to be freed from it. Lastly, the Apostle in that place doth not speak of every particular sin committed with full consent of will, for so also the elect offend before their conversion, but of a general and malicious apostasy from the known truth, and a scornful rejecting of the sacrifice of Christ once offered for sin: so that the sense is thus much, that if we wilfully and maliciously sin, by renouncing the sacrifice of Christ offered for sin, we cannot hope to be saved by any other sacrifice, but ⟨p. 650⟩are to expect judgement and condemnation, seeing such tread under foot the son of God, and count the blood of the testament an unholy thing, and even despite the spirit of grace, as he explaineth himself in the verses following.
yet after the sinne is committed, and the good motions of the spirit are againe reuiued out of their deadly swound, then doe they hate and detest that sinne which before seemed pleasant vnto them and earnestly desire with the Apostle to be freed from it. Lastly, the Apostle in that place doth not speake of euery particular sinne committed with full consent of will, for so also the elect offend before their conuersion, but of a generall and malitious apostasie from the knowne truth, and a scornefull reiecting of the sacrifice of Christ once offered for sinne: so that the sense is thus much, that if wee wilfully and malitiously sinne, by renouncing the sacrifice of Christ offered for sinne, we cannot hope to be saued by any other sacrifice, but ⟨p. 650⟩are to expect iudgement and condemnation, seeing such treade vnder foote the sonne of God, and count the blood of the testament an vnholy thing, and euen despite the spirit of grace, as he explaneth himselfe in the verses following.
§. Sect. 5 And so much concerning the first question;