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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. 5 The third part of effectual calling, is the union and communion which is betwixt Christ and Gods elect:1 which followeth upon the donation before spoken of, whereby Christ Jesus and they are mystically coupled together into one body, he becoming their head and they becoming his members. Of ⟨p. 313⟩this the Apostle speaketh Ephes. 4.15.16. where he exhorteth the faithful, to grow up into him which is the head, that is Christ, 2by whom all the body being coupled together by every joint &c. receiveth increase. And chap. 5.30. We are members of his body, 3of his flesh, and of his bones. And of this our Saviour Christ speaketh in the parable of the vine Joh. 15.1. where he compareth himself to the stock & root, and all the faithful to the branches;4 and the Apostle expresseth it by a metaphorical speech taken from a building, comparing Christ to the foundation, and the Church to the rest of the building, Eph. 2.20.21.22. Now we must not conceive of this union, that it is either natural,5 as the three persons in Trinity are united in the same divine nature, or personal as the body and soul being united make one man, or corporal as the parts of a building are coupled one with another: but this conjunction and union is made by the spirit of God, which dwelling in the manhood of christ above measure, filling it with the graces thereof, is from it derived unto all the faithful and true members of Christs body, filling them with the like graces in measure; and on our part by a true and lively faith, whereby we do apply unto us Christ Jesus and all his benefits. And this appeareth