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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 fifth reason is grounded upon Gods truth and fidelity,1 which is so infallible, that whatsoever he hath spoken, promised, or covenanted, that he will most certainly perform: for God is a faithful and true witness, Apoc. 1.5. and all his promises in Christ are Yea and Amen, 2. Corinth. 1.20. So that it is more easy that heaven and earth should pass away, than that one title of Gods word should fall unaccomplished, Luke 16.17. But the Lord in his word hath assured all that believe, that he will uphold them and preserve them unto everlasting life, against all the fury of their enemies; as may appear both by his covenant which he hath made with his Church in general, and also by particular promises made to all the faithful. Concerning the first, the Lord maketh this covenant with his Church, Esa. 59.21. I will (saith he) make this my covenant with them; 2my spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of the seed of thy seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth even for ever. If therefore Gods spirit never departeth from them, and they for ever confess and profess his word and truth, then certainly they can never fall away nor loose their heavenly inheritance. For,3 if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in us, he shall also quicken our mortal bodies, because his spirit dwelleth in us, as it ⟨p. 666⟩is Rom. 8.11.4 And as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God, vers. 14. And if we be children, we are also heirs, &c. vers. 17. So