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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.
And the Apostle telleth us that he humbled himself, 1and became obedient unto death, Phil. 2.8. In which respect, his death is called a sacrifice or free oblation, which he voluntarily offered unto his father, Heb. 9.14:2 and therefore the Lord might justly take that which Christ freely gave, nay it had been cruelty and injustice if he should have refused, the payment of such a sufficient surety, when he voluntarily offered ⟨p. 297⟩it for our discharge, choosing rather still to have kept us in prison, bound in the chains of everlasting death. Lastly, there might have been some show of rigour and injustice, if Christ the innocent had been overwhelmed, in suffering the punishments which were due unto us, who were the offenders; but being not only man which suffered but God also, and therefore of infinite power and majesty, he was able to pay our great debt, and yet is never the poorer; to suffer death and overcome it by suffering: and by yielding a while to the malice of our spiritual enemies, he finally vanquished and gloriously triumphed over them all; and therefore it was not injustice in God to suffer our Saviour Christ, to undergo that which he was sure to overcome; but unspeakable mercy towards us, in sending his son to pay that debt which we could never have discharged, and to suffer punishments for a time, which otherwise we should have endured for ever.
And the Apostle telleth vs that he humbled himselfe, 1and became obedient vnto death, Phil. 2.8. In which respect, his death is called a sacrifice or free oblation, which he voluntarily offered vnto his father, Heb. 9.14:2