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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 But as the malice of Satan is inveterate, 1so also it is mortal and deadly, not to be satisfied by offering a small injury, by taking away our goods and good name, or afflicting us with sickness, no not by taking away our lives; for nothing will satisfy him but our final destruction of body and soul. And this his malice is lively deciphered unto us by divers names which are given him in the Scriptures. For he is called Satan, that is an adversary, still ready to cross us in all our ⟨p. 18⟩suites which we make unto God,2 as he did Jehoshua the high Priest, Zach. 3.1. He is called an enemy, Matth. 13.39. and that a malicious one; for where Christ the good husbandman soweth wheat, there he soweth tares, that is, hypocrites amongst true professors; to the dishonour of God, the discredit of the Gospel, and the reproach of the true professors thereof.
§. Sect. 2 But as the malice of Sathan is inueterate, 1so also it is mortall and deadly, not to be satisfied by offering a small iniurie, by taking away our goods and good name, or afflicting vs with sicknesse, no not by taking away our liues; for nothing will satisfie him but our finall destruction of body and soule. And this his malice is liuely deciphered vnto vs by diuers names which are giuen him in the Scriptures. For he is called Sathan, that is an aduersarie, still readie to crosse vs in all our ⟨p. 18⟩suites which we make vnto God,2 as he did Iehoshua the high Priest, Zach. 3.1. He is called an enemie,