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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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§. Sect. 3 And thus it appeareth by plain testimonies,1 that the redemption wrought by Christ belongeth only to the faithful; which also by virtue of Christs death & bloodshed, have their sins and corruptions in some measure mortified; and not unto the wicked, who live and die in their sins without repentance. Now I will also confirm this truth by strong reasons. First, those who were never known of Christ (that, is acknowledged for his) were never redeemed by his precious bloodshed; neither is it probable that the father would give his well-beloved son, and that the son would give himself for the redemption of those, whom in his eternal counsel he had decreed to reject, or (as all confess) whom he foresaw should perish: but our Saviour will profess to the workers of iniquity that he never knew them, 2Matth. 7.23: and therefore he never gave himself for their redemption.
§. Sect. 3 And thus it appeareth by plaine testimonies,1 that the redemption wrought by Christ belongeth onely to the faithfull; which also by vertue of Christs death & bloodshed, haue their sinnes and corruptions in some measure mortified; and not vnto the wicked, who liue and die in their sinnes without repentance. Now I will also confirme this truth by strong reasons. First, those who were neuer knowne of Christ (that, is acknowledged for his) were neuer redeemed by his precious bloodshed; neither is it probable that the father would giue his welbeloued sonne, and that the sonne would giue himselfe for the redemption of those, whom in his eternall councell he had decreed to reiect, or (as all confesse) whom he foresaw should perish: but our Sauiour will professe to the workers of iniquitie that he neuer knew them, 2Matth. 7.23: and therefore he neuer gaue himselfe for their redemption.
- 1Reasons to prove that redemption is not universal.