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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.
Secondly, whereas the wise man saith, Pro. 28.14,1 Blessed is the man that feareth always: he doth not understand thereby a doubtful fear of our election, but a fear to sin, and a conscionable care of avoiding those things which are displeasing in Gods sight; which fear is opposed to carnal security and hardness of heart, as appeareth in the same place where this is added, 'But he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into evil: as though he should say, that man is blessed which feareth the Lord, for this will work in him a conscionable care of avoiding sin, which is odious in the eyes of God, and of embracing holiness and righteousness, which being acceptable unto God, he will reward with eternal blessedness; but he that hardeneth his heart and continueth in carnal security, runneth headlong into the evil of sin, and consequently the evil of punishment, even everlasting condemnation.
Secondly, whereas the wise man saith, Pro. 28.14,1 Blessed is the man that feareth allwaies: he doth not vnderstand thereby a doubtfull feare of our election, but a feare to sinne, and a conscionable care of auoiding those things which are displeasing in Gods sight; which feare is opposed to carnall securitie and hardnesse of heart, as appeareth in the same place where this is added, 'But he that hardneth his heart shall fall into euill: as though hee should say, that man is blessed which feareth the Lord, for this will worke in him a conscionable care of auoiding sinne, which is odious in the eyes of God, and of imbracing holinesse and righteousnesse, which being acceptable vnto God, hee will reward with eternall blessednesse; but hee that hardneth his heart and continueth in carnall securitie, runneth headlong into the euill of sinne, and consequently the euill of punishment, euen euerlasting condemnation.
- 1Pron. 28.14.