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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 14: Of the helmet of salvation.Book 1 › Chapter 14: Of the helmet of saluation.
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CHAP. XIIII. Of the helmet of salvation.
CHAP. XIIII. Of the helmet of saluation.
The fifth piece of our Christian armour is the helmet of salvation, which is so called by a metonymy of the effect, because it bringeth salvation to them that wear it,1 for we are saved by hope, as it is Rom. 8.24. which we are to understand by the helmet of salvation, as appeareth 1. Thess. 5.8. ⟨p. 58⟩where he exhorteth us to put on the hope of salvation for an helmet.2 As therefore soldiers when they go into the field put on their helmet, that thereby they may defend their head, which is their chief part, from the cruel blows of the enemy; so we being to fight the spiritual battle, must put on hope both of victory, and the glorious crown belonging thereunto, and so shall we never turn our backs when we are assaulted, seeing by the Lords assistance we do assuredly hope for victory, and through his mercy and the merits of Christ do expect after our combat is finished, the garland of everlasting happiness, promised to all that overcome. For though Satan assault us on the one side, by offering unto us the riches, honours and pleasures of the world, that thereby he may entice us to sin, and so yield our selves his captives, he shall not prevail against us, if we be armed with this helmet of salvation: for as no man in his right wits would sell his certain interest unto a goodly inheritance for a bright shining counter; so much less will any man, who is not stark mad, sell his assured hope of the eternal kingdom of glory, by yielding himself the slave of sin and Satan, to purchase for the present the worlds counterfeit shining excellencies, which are in truth but mutable, or at least momentany vanities. And though he assault us on the other side with afflictions,