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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. 3 1And that we may be the rather stirred up with all care and diligence to provide and buckle fast to us the armour which he after describeth, he showeth the necessity thereof, by describing the dangerousness of our enemies, who being not flesh and blood, but principalities, powers, worldly governors, princes of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickednesses, which are in high places, cannot possibly be resisted by our own strength and means. And (therefore) for this cause he willeth us to take unto us the whole armour of God, that we may be able to resist in the evil day, that is, the time of temptation,2 which is therefore called the evil day, partly because therein Satan tempteth us unto evil, and partly because it is a time of trouble, adversity and affliction, when Satan sifteth us with his temptations. And thus the evil day is taken Psal. 41.1.3 The Lord will deliver him in the evil day, that is, (as our translation also reads it) in the time of trouble.4 And thus also it is used Eph. 5.16. Redeeming the time, because the days are evil, that is, full of troubles and afflictions. And therefore Beza doth translate in this place [Greek or Hebrew], tempore aduerso, the time of adversity.
§ Sect. 3 1And that we may be the rather stirred vp with all care and diligence to prouide and buckle fast to vs the armour which he after describeth, he sheweth the necessitie thereof, by describing the daungerousnes of our enemies, who being not flesh and blood, but principalities, powers, worldly gouernours, princes of the darknes of this world, and spirituall wickednesses, which are in high places, cannot possibly be resisted by our owne strength and meanes. And (therefore) for this cause he willeth vs to take vnto vs the whole armour of God, that we may be able to resist in the euill day, that is, the time of temptation,