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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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CHAP. XVIII. Satan's temptations whereby he seeketh to make our calling uneffectuall, answered.
CHAP. XVIII. Sathans temptations whereby he seeketh to make our calling vneffectuall, answered.
§. Sect. 1 Those who are not called he tempteth divers ways, that he may hinder their effectual calling;1 and first he laboureth to persuade them, to neglect this their calling as a thing not necessary, and to contemn the ministry of the word, which is the means whereby we are effectually called.
§. Sect. 1 THose who are not called hee tempteth diuers waies, that he may hinder their effectuall calling;1 and first he laboureth to perswade them, to neglect this their calling as a thing not necessarie, and to contemne the ministerie of the word, which is the meanes whereby we are effectuallie called.
- 1Of the necessity of our effectual calling.
But we are to withstand these temptations: and to this end we are first to know, that before our effectual calling we are not true members of the Church, though we may outwardly thrust our selves into this society; for what else is the Church ⟨p. 315⟩but that company or congregation which is truly called and selected out of the world? and from hence it hath it name, for it is called Ecclesia [Greek or Hebrew], from the calling thereof: unless therefore we be called we are not members of the Church, and if we be out of the Church there is no salvation; for our Saviour gave himself for his Church alone, and he is the Saviour of his own body,