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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
Book 1 › Chapter 6: Of Sathans aides: and first of the world.
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so hard a thing it is to resist the world when it fauneth on us.
so hard a thing it is to resist the world when it fauneth on vs.
§ Sect. 2 But how hard soever it seemeth to flesh and blood, 1yet must we oppose our selves against this enemy also: for without a fight we can never obtain victory, and without victory we shall never receive the crown of glory. And to the end that we may be provoked to fight against the world and the vanities thereof, we are to know, that though it fawn upon us, yet it is our mortal enemy; though it flatteringly profess it self our friend, yet in truth it fighteth against our souls under Satan's banner, for he is the prince thereof, Joh. 12.31. though it have honey in the mouth,2 yet there is deadly poison in the tail, for the end thereof bringeth destruction; though it offer us many pleasing things to allure us, yet they are but baits which entice us to come within the compass of Satan's nets of perdition. Let us consider, that though it maketh a show, and seemeth a pleasant place like the paradise of God, yet it is a Sodom of sin, which one day the Lord will destroy with fire and brimstone:3 and therefore let us with righteous Lot haste out of it, never turning back with a desire to enjoy the vanities thereof, for the world wholly lieth in wickedness, as it is 1. Joh. 5.19.4 Let us remember that it is impossible to serve God and this Mammon, 5