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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.
CHAP. XIIII. Of eight other reasons which prove the certainty of our perseverance.
CHAP. XIIII. Of eight other reasons which proue the certaintie of our perseuerance.
§ Sect. 1 The sixth reason to assure us of our perseverance may be taken from the intercession of Christ for us to God the father.1 For whatsoever Christ himself maketh request for in the behalf of his faithful, that without doubt the father granteth unto him,2 for God heareth him always, Joh. 11.42. But he continually maketh request for them that their faith fail not,3 as appeareth Luk. 22.32. He prayeth for them, Joh. 17.9. that the father would keep them in his name whom he had given unto him; That they may be one, as he and the father are one, vers. 11; That he would preserve them from evil, vers. 15; and what greater evil than to fall from grace and God also? That they all may be one, as the father is in Christ and Christ in him, vers. 21. That they be with Christ where he is, and may behold his glory, 4vers. 24. He maketh also intercession for all those whom he hath redeemed, that they may be saved, notwithstanding their sins into which they fall through the strength of their corruptions,