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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.
This also is manifest by plain testimonies. Jude 6. it is said, that the Lord hath reserved the wicked angels in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgement of the great day. 2. Pet. 2.4. God spared not the Angels that had sinned, but cast them down into hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness to be kept unto damnation. So Apoc. 20.2. Satan is said to have been bound by the Angel of the Lord for a thousand years, so that he could not stir till the Lord suffered him to be loosed. By all which the holy Ghost noteth unto us, that Satan is no more able to do us hurt, then a malefactor who being bound hand and foot is cast into a deep dungeon, or then a band-dog which is fast tied up in strong chains, till the Lord looseth him and giveth him leave.
This also is manifest by plaine testimonies. Iude 6. it is said, that the Lord hath reserued the wicked angels in euerlasting chaines vnder darknes, vnto the iudgement of the great day. 2. Pet. 2.4. God spared not the Angels that had sinned, but cast them downe into hell, and deliuered them into chaines of darknes to be kept vnto damnation. So Apoc. 20.2. Sathan is said to haue been bound by the Angell of the Lord for a thousand yeres, so that hee could not stirre till the Lord suffered him to be loosed. By all which the holie Ghost noteth vnto vs, that Sathan is no more able to doe vs hurt, then a malefactor who being bound hand and foote is cast into a deepe dungeon, or then a band-dog which is fast tied vp in strong chaines, till the Lord looseth him and giueth him leaue.
But here some man may object, that Satan is said in the Scriptures, to resist God and to oppose himself against him, and even to fight a battle against our Saviour Christ himself and his blessed Angels,