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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.
CHAP. X. Of the particular parts of the Christian armour: and first of the girdle of verity.
CHAP. X. Of the particular parts of the Christian armour: and first of the girdle of veritie.
§. Sect. 1 And thus the Apostle having taken away all reckless security and fool-hardiness, and also strengthened us ⟨p. 49⟩with true valour and Christian fortitude,1 in the next place he describeth the armour of God which we are to buckle unto us. Where first we are generally to observe, that we are not curiously and scrupulously to search out the reason why such and such virtues are likened to these or those pieces of armour: as for example, why he calleth truth a girdle, righteousness a breast-plate, faith a shield, &c. for it was not the Apostles purpose so exactly to fit the similitudes, as may appear 1. Thess. 5.8. where he indifferently ascribeth the name of breast-plate both to faith and charity, by which here he understandeth righteousness; but only briefly and generally to show what virtues and graces of Gods spirit are most necessary for a Christian, wherewith he may be enabled to resist his spiritual enemies, continuing his former allegory taken from wars.
§. Sect. 1 ANd thus the Apostle hauing taken away all retchlesse securitie and foole-hardines, and also strengthened vs