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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. 3 The eight reason may be taken from the spirit of God dwelling in us; for so long as it hath his abiding with us,1 we must needs persevere in grace; neither is it possible we should fall away, seeing it is the fountain and root from which all graces flow and spring, and seeing it continually fighteth against and subdueth the flesh and the lusts thereof. But after we have received the spirit of God it continually dwelleth and abideth with us; for this is that spiritual water of which whosoever drinketh shall never be more a thirst, 2but it shall be a well of water springing up into everlasting life, as it ⟨p. 672⟩may appear by comparing Joh. 4.14. with chapt. 7.39. So Joh. 14.16.3 I will pray the father and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. 17. Even the spirit of truth, 4whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him; but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you. 5And 1. Joh. 3.9. Whosoever is borne of God sinneth not, (that is, with full consent of will) for his seed remaineth in him; neither can he sin, because he is borne of God: where the spirit is called the seed of God, because by virtue thereof we are begotten unto God. If therefore by virtue of this spirit we are so preserved that we cannot sin with full consent of will, nor have it reigning in us as it did before our regeneration, then certainly we shall be preserved thereby from falling away, and notwithstanding our sins we shall persevere in grace to everlasting life.
§. Sect. 3 The eight reason may be taken from the spirit of God dwelling in vs; for so long as it hath his abiding with vs,