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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.
The third thing required, is, that we pray in or by the spirit, for the word here used may signify both. First therefore we must pray in the spirit; to which is required first that we pray with understanding; in which respect the ignorant Papists offend, who pray in an unknown tongue; and the ignorant Protestants also, who though they pray in their own language, yet know not the sense and meaning of that they speak.
The third thing required, is, that we pray in or by the spirit, for the word here vsed may signifie both. First therefore we must pray in the spirit; to which is required first that we pray with vnderstanding; in which respect the ignorant Papists offend, who pray in an vnknowne tongue; and the ignorant Protestants also, who though they pray in their owne language, yet know not the sense and meaning of that they speake.
Secondly, that we pray with attentive minds, joining our hearts with our tongues, and thoughts with words, to which is opposed the prayer of the lips alone, when as we draw near unto God with our mouths, our hearts in the mean time being far from him,1 as it is Esa. 29.13. Which kind of prayer is odious and abominable unto God: for what more gross discord than when the tongue and heart disagree from one another, which should be tuned in unison? And as the carcass being severed from the soul is presently corrupt and stinketh; so the prayer of the lips being severed from the prayer of the heart, which is the life and soul of it, is but a dead carcass of prayer, and stinketh in Gods nostrils.
Secondly, that we pray with attentiue mindes, ioyning our hearts with our tongues, and thoughts with words, to which is opposed the prayer of the lippes alone, when as wee draw neere vnto God with our mouthes, our hearts in the meane time being farre from him,1 as it is