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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.
1The sin against the holy Ghost, is a general denial and oppugning of the truth and all religion, of which the understanding and conscience by the illumination of the spirit are persuaded and convicted, proceeding from an obstinate will and purposed malice against God and his truth. The which sin is committed of two sorts of men; first, of those who have made profession of the truth, and afterwards become Apostates, not from some part only but from all religion, condemning, blaspheming, and persecuting as heretical and impious, that truth which before they professed, and of which they were persuaded. And thus did Hymeneus and Alexander sin,2 of whom Paul speaketh ⟨p. 654⟩1. Tim. 1.20. Secondly, of those who were never professors thereof,3 whose consciences notwithstanding are convicted of that truth which they do oppugn: an example whereof we have in the Scribes and Pharisees, Matth. 12.24.31. and in many of the learned Papists in these days, who maliciously deny and persecute that truth which they know and are convicted of.
1The sinne against the holy Ghost, is a generall deniall and oppugning of the truth and all religion, of which the vnderstanding and conscience by the illumination of the spirit are perswaded and conuicted, proceeding from an obstinate will and purposed malice against God and his truth. The which sinne is committed of two sortes of men; first, of those who haue made profession of the truth, and afterwards become Apostataes, not from some part onely but from all religion, condemning, blaspheming, and persecuting as hereticall and impious, that truth which before they professed, and of which they were perswaded. And thus did Hymeneus and Alexander sinne,2 of whom Paul speaketh ⟨p. 654⟩