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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.
§. Sect. 4 Secondly, we are assured of our perseverance,1 by Gods particular promises made to his faithful ones. Psal. 1.3. it is said of the righteous man, that he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of waters that will bring forth her fruits in due season, whose leaf shall not said, &c. As therefore the tree planted by the river side doth not wither, because continually it sucketh moisture, whereby it is quickened and refreshed: so the righteous man persevereth in his righteousness, because he is continually revived and quickened with that spiritual moisture, which he sucketh from Christ who is the lively root, whereof he is a branch. Psal. 15.5,2 He that doth these things shall never be moved. Psal. 37.24, Though (the righteous man) fall, he shall not be cast off; for the Lord putteth under his hand. Psal. 112.6, Surely he shall never be moved, 3but the righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance. And ⟨p. 668⟩vers. 9.4 His righteousness remaineth for ever. Psal. 125.1, They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, 5but remaineth for ever. Joh. 4.14. Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never be more a thirst, but the water which I shall give him shall be in him a well of water, springing up to everlasting life. Where by this water we are to understand the holy Ghost,