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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.
CHAP. XVII. Of our Vocation.
§. Sect. 1 And thus much concerning our redemption; the next cause of our salvation is our vocation: for, whomsoever the Lord hath elected unto everlasting life, those also he hath redeemed out of the hands of their spiritual enemies; and whom he hath redeemed, those in his good time he effectually calleth, and applieth this great benefit of their redemption unto them, by separating them from the world, and ingrafting them into the body of Christ, whereby they become his, and he with all his benefits becometh theirs.
§. Sect. 1 ANd thus much concerning our redemption; the next cause of our saluation is our vocation: for, whomsoeuer the Lord hath elected vnto euerlasting life, those also he hath redeemed out of the hands of their spirituall enemies; and whom he hath redeemed, those in his good time he effectually calleth, and applieth this great benefit of their redemption vnto them, by separating them from the world, and ingrafting them into the body of Christ, whereby they become his, and he with all his benefits becometh theirs.
1In speaking hereof, I will show first what this calling is, and afterwards answer Satan's temptations, whereby he laboureth to make it frustrate and unprofitable unto us. For the first, our vocation or calling is an effect of Gods election, whereby our Saviour Christ, God and man, doth by his kingly authority call and invite us whilst we live here, unto the participation and embracing of the inestimable benefit of our redemption, that thereby we may attain unto everlasting life.