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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. 6 Lastly,1 our salvation it self dependeth not upon our own worthiness, but upon Gods free mercy and undeserved love; for salvation is the free gift of God, and not the wages of our own worthiness, as death is the wages of sin, as appeareth Rom. 6.23. And we are saved by grace through faith, and that not of our selves; it is the gift of God, as it is Eph. 2.8. And the Apostle telleth us, Tit. 2.11. that the grace of God bringeth salvation, and teacheth us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and that we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world: so that our forsaking sin and embracing holiness and righteousness is not the cause of our salvation, but the grace of God, by which all these effects are also wrought in us. But most plain is that of the Apostle 2. Tim. 1.9. where he excludeth our own works and worthiness,2 to ⟨p. 155⟩the end he might ascribe the whole work of our salvation to Gods grace and goodwill. Who hath saved us (saith he) not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace. So Tit. 3.5. Not by the works of righteousness which we had done, 3but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of the new birth, and renewing of the holy Ghost.
§ Sect. 6 Lastly,1 our saluation it selfe dependeth not vpon our owne worthinesse, but vpon Gods free mercy and vndeserued loue; for saluation is the free gift of God, and not the wages of our owne worthinesse, as death is the wages of sinne, as appeareth