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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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THE SECOND BOOK, ENTREATING OF SATAN'S special and particular temptations, which he suggesteth against the several causes of our salvation; and of the answers whereby they are to be refuted and repelled.
THE SECOND BOOKE, INTREATING OF SATHANS speciall and particular temptations, which he suggesteth against the seuerall causes of our saluation; and of the answers whereby they are to be refuted and repelled.
CHAP. I. Answers to those temptations of Satan, whereby he persuadeth carnal men of Gods love.
CHAP. I. Answeres to those temptations of Sathan, whereby he perswadeth carnall men of Gods loue.
§. Sect. 1 And so much concerning the common affections of the Christian conflict,1 namely his manful withstanding Satan's encounters, and also his fainting and falling into sin. Now we are to speak of the special temptations themselves, and the means whereby we may be strengthened against them. Where first we are to consider that Satan's temptations are not always one and the same, neither impugn one or two points only of our faith and religion; but as the causes and the means of our salvation are manifold, so also doth he gather manifold objections against every one of them, if they truly appertain unto us, that so he may impugn and race our faith; or else doth fill us with vain presumption, persuading us that all the causes and means of salvation concur together in us, when as in truth we are void and destitute of them all.