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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. 8 So that our sanctification which is the last effect of Gods election wrought in us in this life,1 is the true touchstone of all the rest: whereby we may certainly know whether we be effectually called, that is, separated from the world, and ingrafted as lively members into the body of Christ; and whether we be truly justified, that is, purged from the guilt and punishment of our sins by Christs blood, and adorned with his righteousness imputed unto us. For if we be separated from the world, then do we not set our minds upon worldly things, but have our conversation in heaven from whence we look for a saviour, even the Lord Jesus Christ; 2if we are ingrafted into the body of Christ who is the true vine, then do we bring forth the sweet grapes of holiness and righteousness in our lives and conversations, as it is Joh. 15.5;3 if we have by a true faith the assurance of the remission of our sins, then will we love God who hath forgiven us so great a debt, and labour to express our love by glorifying his name, in causing our light to shine before men; and if the blood of Christ be effectual ⟨p. 230⟩unto us for the purging away of the guilt and punishment of sin, then will it also in some measure purge away the corruptions themselves. For we are grafted with him into the similitude of his death and resurrection, 4and our old man is crucified with him and the body of sin destroyed, that from henceforth we should not serve sin, as it is Rom. 6.5.6. And as our sanctification is the only undoubted sign of our vocation and justification; so also of our election; for the Lord hath chosen us that we should be holy, Ephes. 1.4. And therefore if we be holy we have a manifest effect and inseparable fruit of our election,5