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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 1Fourthly, the wonderful consent which is amongst the divers writers of the Scriptures, doth evidently show that they were guided and directed, by one and the same spirit of God: for whereas it is truly said of other men, Quot homines tot sententiae, Look how many men there be, and so many minds there be; whereof it cometh to pass that every writer almost varieth from another, gainsaying and confuting that which another hath delivered, that so out of the ashes of their credit and reputation they may build a monument of their own fame: the quite contrary is to be observed in the writers of the scriptures, who successively writing one after another the space of divers thousand years, do notwithstanding consent together in the same truth, the later ratifying and confirming that which the former had delivered without any alteration, opposition or emulation, as though they were divers hands set on work by the same soul, which could not possibly come to pass unless they were overruled by Gods spirit.
§ Sect. 5 1Fourthly, the wonderfull concent which is amongst the diuers writers of the Scriptures, doth euidently shew that they were guided and directed, by one and the same spirit of God: for whereas it is truly said of other men, Quot homines tot sententiae, Looke how many men there be, and so many mindes there be; wherof it commeth to passe that euery writer almost varieth from another, gainsaying and confuting that which another hath deliuered, that so out of the ashes of their credit and reputation they may build a monument of their owne fame: the quite contrarie is to be obserued in the writers of the scriptures, who successiuely writing one after another the space of diuers thousand yeeres, doe notwithstanding consent together in the same truth, the later ratifying and confirming that which the former had deliuered without any alteration, opposition or emulation, as though they were diuers hands set on worke by the same soule, which could not possibly come to passe vnlesse they were ouerruled by Gods spirit.
- 1The fourth reason, taken from the consent of the divers writers of the Scriptures.The fourth reason, taken from the concent of the diuers writers of the Scriptures.