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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.
but against that presumption which relieth it self in whole or in part, upon our own legal righteousness.
but against that presumption which relieth it selfe in whole or in part, vpon our owne legall righteousnesse.
§. Sect. 7 The like place to this is that saying of Paul which they object, 1. Cor. 4.3, 4.1 I judge not mine own self, for I know nothing by my self, yet am I not thereby justified, but he that judgeth me is the Lord. For answering whereof, we are to know, that there were divers in the Church of Corinth, who censured Pauls ministry and disgraced his gifts; against which detractations he bendeth his speech and maketh an apology for himself, saying, that he would not take upon him to judge himself, concerning the excellency and worth of his ministry and gifts, but would leave the judgement and approbation thereof unto God, whose ambassador he was; and though he knew nothing which might be objected against him in regard of his ministry, yet hereby he would not look to be justified in Gods presence: So that if this be the sense of the words, as appeareth by the coherence and the drift of the place, it maketh nothing for popish doubting. But let it be granted that Paul speaks not of his ministry, but of his righteousness and obedience to the law, yet this maketh nothing against the certainty of our election; for the Apostle speaking of his own righteousness and innocency, doth disclaim it from being ⟨p. 257⟩any cause of his justification: neither doth he say that in regard thereof he doubteth, as the Papists would expound him, but he affirmeth directly that he is not thereby justified, and rendereth this as a reason, that it is God who judgeth him: and therefore though he were unblameable before men, yea though he knew nothing by himself; yet he could not hereby be justified before the just judgement seat of God, who requires such perfection and exact obedience as can be found in no man living; for he that but once breaketh but one commandment,