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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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CHAP. VII. Of the flesh, and the strength thereof.
§. Sect. 1 And so much concerning the world. The second enemy which assisteth Satan against us is the flesh, which is that inborn traitor which we nourishing in our selves, doth open a gate in our souls, into which Satan and the world may easily send whole troupes of temptations to enter and surprise us. By the flesh we are not to understand the body alone and the flesh thereof,1 but that corruption of nature which hath defiled both body and soul, being spread and mixed with every part of both, even as the light is mingled with darkness in the twilight or dawning of the day; whereby we are made prone to all sin, and ready to entertain all temptations, which promise the satisfying of any of the lusts thereof. This secret traitor conspiring with Satan and the world to work our destruction, doth entertain and further all their temptations; it fighteth and lusteth against the spirit, it rebelleth against the law of our minds, and leadeth us captive to the law of sin, it hindereth us from doing the good we would, and maketh us commit the evil which we hate, as it is notably set down Rom. 7. So Gal. 5.17.2 The flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the same things that ye would.
§. Sect. 1 ANd so much concerning the world. The second enemie which assisteth Sathan against vs is the flesh, which is that inborne traytor which wee nourishing in our selues, doth opē a gate in our soules, into which Sathan and the world may easily send whole troupes of temptations to enter and surprize vs. By the flesh we are not to vnderstand the bodie alone and the flesh thereof,1