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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 that they were without Christ, aliens from the common-wealth of Israel, strangers from the covenant of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in the world, as it is vers. 12. So 1. Cor. 6.11. he saith, that those who were now sanctified and justified, were in time past fornicators,1 idolaters, adulterers, wantons, buggerers &c. The Apostle Peter like wise writing to the Church of Christ, saith both of himself and them also, that they had spent the time past before their conversion, after the lust of the gentiles, walking in wantonness, gluttony, and in abominable idolatries, 21. Pet. 4.3. And the Prophet Isaiah saith, that we all were wandering sheep,3 until the Lord gathered us into his sheepfold. So that it was so far of, that we should deserve nay grace or mercy at Gods hand, that in his justice he might rather have consumed us as his enemies, than called us to be his Church and people.
and that they were without Christ, aliants from the common-wealth of Israell, strangers from the couenant of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in the world, as it is vers. 12. So 1. Cor. 6.11. he saith, that those who were now sanctified and iustified, were in time past fornicators,1 idolators, adulterers, wantons, buggerers &c. The Apostle Peter like wise writing to the Church of Christ, saith both of himselfe and them also, that they had spent the time past before their conuersion, after the lust of the gentiles, walking in wantonnesse, gluttonie, and in abominable idolatries, 21. Pet. 4.3. And the Prophet Esay saith, that we all were wandering sheepe,3