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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now the undoubted signs of love and christian charity are two; giving to those that want,1 and forgiving those that offend: for it is a property of true love to be bountiful, 1. Cor. 13.4. as to all, so especially to those that are of the household of faith, as it is Gal. 6.10; and on the other side,2 He that hath this worlds good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, he is destitute of the love of God, 3and consequently of the love of his brethren, which is but a stream issuing from this fountain, 1. Joh. 3.17. And this Christian liberality as it is a sign of true love, so also of our election and salvation; for our Saviour Christ hath showed us, that according to these fruits of charity, and actions of Christian liberality, he will pronounce the sentence of everlasting joy and happiness at the day of judgement,4 Matth. 25.34, 35, 36. and on the other side, that he will pronounce the sentence of condemnation against the neglectors of these duties of Christian charity, vers. 41, 42, 43.
Now the vndoubted signes of loue and christian charitie are two; giuing to those that want,1 and forgiuing those that offend: for it is a propertie of true loue to bee bountifull, 1. Cor. 13.4. as to all, so especially to those that are of the household of faith, as it is Gal. 6.10; and on the other side,