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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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we are to answer that by the spirit of God and a lively faith, Christ is become our head and we his members, so that he is ours and we his, and our sins he hath taken upon him, & bestowed on us his righteousness, he is become our husband and we his spouse, and therefore as he hath communicated himself unto us, so likewise all his benefits, his merits, righteousness, sanctification, & everlasting happiness.
we are to answere that by the spirit of God and a liuely faith, Christ is become our head and we his members, so that he is ours and we his, and our sins he hath taken vpon him, & bestowed on vs his righteousnes, he is become our husband and we his spouse, and therfore as he hath cōmunicated himself vnto vs, so likewise al his benefits, his merits, righteousnes, sanctificatiō, & euerlasting happines.
§. Sect. 8 But if Satan will not thus be answered, we are not to entertain any further disputation with him, but to send him to our Saviour Christ who hath taken upon him to be not only our redeemer and our mediator and intercessor unto God his father,1 but also our advocate to plead our cause and to answer all suites made against us both by Gods justice and the handwriting of the law, and also by Satan and all his adherents. as it is, 1. Joh. 2.1. Seeing therefore our Saviour Christ who is the wisdom of his father hath taken upon him the defence of our cause in all our suites, let not us our selves be over busy in disputing with this wrangling sophister, but send him for an answer to our Saviour Christ who hath fully satisfied his fathers justice, in all, which it had against us, and cancelled the handwriting of the law, whereby we were obliged and bound, and therefore much more able is he to answer all accusations which this cavilling accuser hath against us. Neither are we to doubt but that our Saviour will be our advocate to plead our cause, especially considering that it doth principally concern himself, and his own glory and sufficiency. For the questions and causes controversial between us and Satan, are not about our own worthiness, merits, righteousness, and satisfactions, all which we renounce and cast away from us as polluted clouts, in respect of being any causes of our justification and salvation: