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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. 8 The last reason may be taken from the weakness and inability of the causes which should hinder our perseverance and make us fall away.1 For there is nothing in the world so powerful, but it is altogether too weak to work this defection. For first, afflictions cannot deprive us of grace, nor hinder our perseverance, as it is Rom. 8.35: for though they are the fiery trial, yet they do not burn us, but refine us from our dross, neither do they hinder our salvation, but rather cause unto us a far most excellent and et ernall weight of glory, as it is 2. Cor. 4.17:2 nor yet our flesh, for though it be never so strong, yet the spirit of God dwelling in us, will in the end mortify and subdue it. Not the world, for our Captain Christ hath overcome it, not only for himself but also for his members, Joh. 16.33: yea and he enableth us also by his holy spirit to overcome it.3 For all that is borne of God overcometh the world, and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith, as it is 1. Joh. 5.4. Not the devil, for if we resist him, 4he will flee from us, Jam. 4.7. And he that is, borne of God keepeth himself, and the wicked one toucheth him not, 1. Joh. 5.18. Not our sins, for they are punished and fully satisfied for in Christ; and if we sin, we have an advocate with the father, 5&c. 1. Joh. 2.1, 2. And for the corruption of sin, though it dwell in us, yet it shall not reign in us,