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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. 7 Lastly,1 if we would withstand Satan, we must object our Saviour Christ against all his temptations: for if we apply him unto us by a lively faith, he will be our shield and buckler to defend us from all Satan's blows. For example, if Satan tell us that we are miserable sinners, and therefore in the state of damnation: we are to answer that our Saviour Christ came into the world to save sinners, & that he was wounded for our transgressions & broken for our iniquities &c. and with his stripes we are healed, and so he which knew no sin, 2was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. If he say that we are subject to the curse of the law;3 we are to answer that Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law when he was made a curse for us. If he object that we are subject to Gods wrath, we are to tell him that Christ did bear his fathers displeasure, that he might make our peace:4 and whereas we were strangers and enemies, because our minds were set on evil works, he hath now reconciled us in the body of his flesh through death. If he tell us that we are his bondslaves, we are to answer, that we were so indeed in time past, but our Saviour christ hath payed unto his father the price of our redemption,5 & hath set us free. If he affirm that we are unjust and therefore shall be condemned before Gods judgment seat; we are to answer that Christ who was innocent was condemned, that we who are guilty might be acquitted; that though we are wicked in our selves, yet we are most just being clothed with his righteousness; that he that came to save us shall come to judge us, and therefore we need not doubt of mercy, if we plead his merits forsaking the plea of our own righteousness and renouncing all self confidence. If he say that we shall be held captive of death and never rise ⟨p. 115⟩to take possession of our heavenly inheritance, we are to answer that our Saviour Christ hath broken the bonds of death and led captivity captive; that he is risen again, being the first fruits of them that slept,