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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
Book 2 › Chapter 15: That all who are redeemed are also sanctified.
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And these are the three degrees of our redemption, which always follow one another, for, for whomsoever Christ hath given himself as the price of their redemption, to those also he giveth his holy spirit, ⟨p. 293⟩which doth illuminate the eyes of their understanding blinded with ignorance, and sanctifieth their will and affections, working in them a desire and holy endeavour of serving the Lord in holiness and righteousness, and of withstanding the temptations of the flesh, the world and the devil. And whomsoever he thus redeemeth out of the power and government of their spiritual enemies, those he will perfectly redeem and deliver from all their malicious attempts, and give them the eternal peace of his kingdom. But those who have not their part in the second degree, that is, those who continue in their blind ignorance, and in the natural pollution of their will and affections, willingly subjecting themselves to the service of sin and Satan, and stubbornly withdrawing their stiff necks out of the yoke of holy obedience unto Gods commandments; they can never have any assurance that Christ hath redeemed them by paying the price of his blood, nor will deliver them at his second coming out of the bondage of Satan, in which they have lived all their life time, with pleasure and delight; for, whomsoever he ransometh with the price of his blood, those he freeth out of the government of their spiritual enemies, sin, death, and the devil; and therefore they that still live in sin, as our Saviour saith Joh. 8.34,1 yea the servants of Satan also, as the Apostle teacheth, 1. Joh. 3.8. For their servants we are to whom we obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness, as it is Rom. 6.16: and those who still remain in the service and slavery of sin and satan, have no part in the first redemption, wrought by the shedding of his blood, nor shall have any part in the last redemption, at his second coming to judgement.
And these are the three degrees of our redemptiō, which alwaies follow one another, for, for whomsoeuer Christ hath giuen himselfe as the price of their redemption, to those also hee giueth his holy spirit,