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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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But those who make no conscience of hearing the Gospel preached, and when they hear it, do not believe it, nor apply it to themselves by a ⟨p. 218⟩true and lively faith, nor bring forth any fruits thereof in a holy and Christian life, they have neither faith nor Gods spirit: and therefore if they have any persuasion of their election and salvation, it is not the testimony of Gods spirit, but their own fantasy, and a vain opinion arising from carnal security and presumption.
But those who make no conscience of hearing the Gospell preached, and when they heare it, doe not beleeue it, nor apply it to themselues by a ⟨p. 218⟩true and liuely faith, nor bring foorth any fruites thereof in a holie and Christian life, they haue neither faith nor Gods spirit: and therefore if they haue any perswasion of their election and saluation, it is not the testimonie of Gods spirit, but their owne phantasie, and a vaine opinion arising from carnall securitie and presumption.
§. Sect. 6 Secondly,1 the testimony of Gods spirit may hereby be known: first, in that it throughly persuadeth the faithful of their election and salvation; secondly, by the manner of persuading them; thirdly, by the effects of this testimony and persuasion. For the first, the spirit of God doth not only give this bare testimony that we are elected, adopted, and shall be saved: but also doth fully persuade us hereof, as being a thing most certain and without question. So 1. Cor. 2.12. the Apostle saith that we have received the spirit of God, 2that we might know the things that are given to us of God. And