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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 And thus have I showed, that faith is a certain assurance of Gods love and favour in Christ.1 Now I will also prove that it particularly persuadeth us of our own election and life everlasting. For first; such a faith is begot now in our hearts, by the Preaching of the word, as was begot in the hearts of men, by our Saviour Christ himself; for as there is but one God, so there is but one true and justifying faith, Ephes. 4.5:2 but by that faith they were particularly persuaded of the remission of their sins, and consequently of ⟨p. 205⟩their justification and salvation, as appeareth Luke. 7.42.50. where our Saviour saith thus to the woman:3 Thy sins are forgiven thee, thy faith hath saved thee, go in peace. So Matth. 9.2. he saith to the sick of the Palsy, Be of good comfort, 4thy sins are forgiven thee. And therefore the faith which is now begot in us by the Preaching of the word, doth also particularly persuade us of the remission of our sins and eternal salvation. For as our Saviour Christ by his own absolute authority, did remit the sins of those that did believe; so he hath left this authority to his ministers (not absolutely by their own power to remit sins, which the man of sin doth challenge unto himself, but) to declare and pronounce their sins forgiven who truly believe in the son of God, and repent them of their sins: the which their sentence is ratified in Heaven, according to that Matth. 16.19.5 I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of Heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt bind in earth shall be bound in Heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose in earth shall be loosed in Heaven; which authority is not given to Peter alone and his successors, as the Papists dream; but as Peter answered, not only for himself, but also in the behalf of all the rest, so he receiveth this power both for himself and for all the Apostles; yea, for all Gods true Ministers, the undoubted successors of the Apostles, as our Saviour expoundeth himself,