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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.
For the servant that knoweth his masters will and doth it not, 1shall be beaten with many stripes, Luk. 12.47. And it shall be more easy for Tyre and Sidon, Sodom and Gomorrah,2 who had not the Gospel preached amongst them, nor saw Christs miracles, than for Corazin and Bethsaida which enjoyed both, Matth. 11.21. for there as he giveth great means of knowledge, there he expecteth great fruits in practise, and as he will be honoured in all, so especially in those that come nigh unto him; as it is Levit. 10.3. Lastly,3 that the sentence of salvation and damnation shall not be given according to our words and profession, but according to our deeds and the holy practise of the works of mercy and Christianity, which are the inseparable fruits and undoubted signs of true faith. And therefore let not Satan delude us,4 by persuading ⟨p. 84⟩swading us that piety without honesty, profession without practise, faith without works are sufficient for our salvation.
For the seruant that knoweth his masters will and doth it not, 1shall be beaten with many stripes, Luk. 12.47. And it shall be more easie for Tyre and Sidon, Sodome and Gomorrah,2 who had not the Gospell preached amongst them, nor saw Christs miracles, than for Corazin and Bethsaida which enioyed both,