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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. 3 Thirdly,1 the titles which are given unto the word in the Scriptures, may serve as strong arguments to move us carefully to hear the same: for it is called the ministry of reconciliation, whereby we are reconciled unto God, 2. Cor. 5.18. and therefore without it, there being no other ordinary means of reconciliation, we remain still Gods enemies. It is called the Gospel of peace,2 Eph. 6.15. without which we have neither peace with God, nor the peace of conscience; It is called the word of grace, Act. 14.3, and 18.32, because it is the means whereby the Lord deriveth unto us his grace and mercy,3 and ⟨p. 318⟩all the spiritual graces of his sanctifying spirit;4 It is called the word of life, Phil. 2.16. and the word of salvation, Act. 13.26. because it is the means whereby we are saved out of the hands of spiritual enemies, and are certainly assured of everlasting life and happiness;5 It is called the kingdom of God, Matth. 13.44. because thereby we are brought, first into the kingdom of grace, and afterwards into the kingdom of glory; It is that heavenly seed whereby we are begotten unto God, in which respect the ministers thereof are called spiritual fathers,6