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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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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. 1.7.3 And though we do not exclude God the Father, from the work of our redemption, for he is the author and first cause, who hath so loved us that he sent his son to save and redeem us; nor the holy Ghost who applieth unto us the merits and efficacy of Christs death, making them effectual for our salvation; yet if we speak properly, our Saviour Christ only can be called our Redeemer, and that in these respects; first, because he alone was ordained and deputed to perfect the work of our redemption; secondly, because he only was God and man, both which were necessarily required in our Mediator and Redeemer, that he might have full right and ability to redeem us; thirdly, because he alone gave himself to be the price of our redemption; and lastly, because in him only there is perfect redemption as being our head, who not only hath salvation in himself, but also deriveth it to all the members of his body.
Secondly, I shew who is our Sauiour and Redeemer, namely Christ Iesus, who only saueth vs from our sinnes, as it is Matth. 1.21; Neither is there saluation in any other, as it is Act. 4.12.1