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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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Thine indignation is gone over me, and thy fear hath cut me off. 1The like complaint he taketh up. Psal. 77.8.9.10. Neither had the Prophet in these times always the spirit of supplication and prayer, but sometime the grievousness of his pain did shut his mouth so as he could not confess his sin,2 nor humble himself before his God; though through the weight of affliction, his bones were consumed, and he roared for grief all the day long, as appeareth Psalm. 32.3.4. So Jeremiah seeing the word of God contemned,3 and himself who was Gods ambassador despised, could not bear it but bursteth out into great impatience, cursing the day of his birth, and even the man that brought news thereof to his father, because he was borne to see labour and sorrow, and that his days should be consumed with shame. Jerem. 20.14, 15.18. If therefore we judge of Job, David, and Jeremiah, according to their outward behaviour, and their own inward feeling in the time of afflictions, and in the combat of temptations; we should think them void of faith, impatience, and destitute of all assurance and hope of Gods love and favour: but the Scriptures teach us otherwise, propounding them unto us as patterns of patience and true godliness; and themselves also at other times do show their singular faith, patience, and the rest of the graces of Gods spirit. Seeing then this is not our case alone, but the state of Gods dearest children, let us not believe the tempter telling us that we are not Gods children because we see not Gods graces so plainly in the time of temptation and trial, but contrariwise bewray our impatience and other corruptions: but let us be truly humbled in the sight of our infirmities, labouring and striving to reform them; and judge of our state, not as we find it in the time of the conflict, but as it was or is before or after the combat is ended.
Thine indignation is gone ouer me, and thy feare hath cut me off.