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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 1Secondly, the purity and perfection of the scriptures, do evidently show that they are the word of God, indited by his holy spirit; for they manifest unto us the only true God, and propound him alone unto us, to be worshipped, expressing also the manner and means of his service, from which we must not decline on the right hand, or on the left: but all other religions teach us either to worship many Gods, which is a thing absurd in reason, and contrary to the light of nature, as divers of the wisest philosophers well discerned; or to worship the true God not according to his revealed will, but according to their false imaginations, & erroneous superstitions. Now, nature, reason, and experience it self teach us, that there is no wise King but will set down rules and laws, according to which he will be served and obeyed, and not leave it to every ones fantasy and vain imagination; and shall we think God less wise then man, that he should not have a perfect law for the government of his people, but suffer every man to follow his own blind conceit and ignorant superstition?
§. Sect. 3 1Secondly, the puritie and perfection of the scriptures, doe euidently shew that they are the word of God, indited by his holy spirit; for they manifest vnto vs the onely true God, and propound him alone vnto vs, to be worshipped, expressing also the manner and meanes of his seruice, from which we must not decline on the right hand, or on the left: but all other religions teach vs either to worship many Gods, which is a thing absurd in reason, and contrarie to the light of nature, as diuers of the wisest philosophers well discerned; or to worship the true God not according to his reuealed will, but according to their false imaginations, & erroneous superstitions. Now, nature, reason, and experience it selfe teach vs, that there is no wise King but will set downe rules and lawes, according to which he will be serued and obeyed, and not leaue it to euery ones fantasie and vaine imagination; and shall we thinke God lesse wise then man, that he should not haue a perfect law for the gouernment of his people, but suffer euery man to follow his owne blind conceite and ignorant superstition?
- 12. Reasons taken from the purity and perfection of the Scriptures.