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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.
Look also upon the example of the Prophet David, who though he were a man according to Gods own heart, yet was he made to drink a deep draught in this cup of inward afflictions, and was vexed not only outwardly in his estate, goods, and body, but also in his soul, with the sense of Gods wrath, with the weight of sin, and the terrors and torments of conscience, which make him to utter these and such like pitiful complaints in the book of the Psalms. Psal. 6.3.1 My soul is also sore troubled: but Lord how long wilt thou delay? And v. 6. I fainted in my mourning: I cause my bed every night to swim, and water my couch with my tears. So Psal. 38.2.2 Thine arrows have light upon me, and thine hand lieth upon me. 3. There is nothing sound in my flesh, because of thine anger: neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 4. For mine iniquities are gone over mine head, and as a weighty burden they are too heavy for me. &c. And Psal. 88.7. Thine indignation lieth upon me, 3and thou hast vexed me with all thy waves. And v. 14. Lord, why dost thou reject my soul, and hidest thy face from me? 15. I am afflicted and at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrors, doubting of my life. 16. Thine indignations go over me, and thy fear hath cut me off. So in the 77 Psalm he taketh up this lamentable complaint. vers. 7.4 Will the Lord absent himself for ever? and will he show no more favour? 8. Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? 9. Hath God forgotten to be merciful? hath he shut up his tender mercies in displeasure? 10. And I said, this is my death. Look also upon the Apostle Paul, who though he were a chosen vessel, whom God had separated from his mothers womb to carry his name before the Gentiles, and is is Act. 9.15.5