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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. 2 But let us consider the state of the question between us and Satan, with his Doctors and Proctors,1 whom he feeth with worldly riches to plead his cause. We hold that a man truly converted, endued with a lively faith and sanctified, may ordinarily be assured that he is the child of God, elected to salvation: but they affirm that it is presumption for such to have any certain assurance hereof, unless it be by extraordinary revelation; he may hope indeed that he is elected and shall be saved, but this hope must he tempered with fear, and mixed with doubting; and this doubting they call humility, which they do not account an infirmity, but rather a virtue which doth commend their faith, esteeming firm assurance to be but heretical confidence and damnable presumption, and pronouncing him accursed in their council of Trent, who affirmeth that we are to believe without doubting ⟨p. 188⟩the remission of our own sin and everlasting life in particular.
§. Sect. 2 But let vs consider the state of the question betweene vs and Sathan, with his Doctors and Proctors,1 whom he feeth with worldly riches to pleade his cause. We hold that a man truly conuerted, indued with a liuely faith and sanctified, may ordinarily be assured that he is the child of God, elected to saluation: but they affirme that it is presumption for such to haue any certaine assurance hereof, vnlesse it be by extraordinary reuelation; he may hope indeede that he is elected and shall be saued, but this hope must he tempered with feare, and mixt with doubting; and this doubting they call humilitie, which they doe not account an infirmitie, but rather a vertue which doth commend their faith, esteeming firme assurance to be but hereticall confidence and damnable presumption, and pronouncing him accursed in their councell of Trent, who affimeth that we are to beleeue without doubting ⟨p. 188⟩the remission of our owne sinne and euerlasting life in particular.
- 1The state of this question between the Christian and Satan with his assistants.