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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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1First I say, that it is an effect of Gods election; for whom he had chosen to everlasting life in Christ, those by Christ he hath ⟨p. 275⟩saved and redeemed, and those only as we shall see afterwards.
1First I say, that it is an effect of Gods election; for whom he had chosen to euerlasting life in Christ, those by Christ he hath ⟨p. 275⟩saued and redeemed, and those only as we shall see afterwards.
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Secondly, I show who is our Saviour and Redeemer, namely Christ Jesus, who only saveth us from our sins, as it is Matth. 1.21; Neither is there salvation in any other, as it is Act. 4.12.1 For as there is but one God, so there is but one Mediator between God and man, which is the man Jesus Christ, as it is 1. Tim. 2.5.2 And by him alone we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins, and that without any respect of our worthiness, but according to his rich grace, Eph. 1.7