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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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And whence can the defeating and frustrating of this powerful violence proceed, but from a greater power, even the power of God? for though all men should combine themselves together, they were unable to resist Satan's rage, or protect the word of God from utter ruin: only the Lord whose power is omnipotent could thus uphold it, and make it prevail against all the power of hell.
And whence can the defeating and frustrating of this powerful violence proceede, but from a greater power, euen the power of God? for though all men should combine themselues together, they were vnable to resist Sathans rage, or protect the word of God from vtter ruine: onely the Lord whose power is omnipotent could thus vphold it, and make it preuaile against all the power of hell.
And as the Lord by preserving and defending the scriptures, from the beginning unto this day, doth evidently show that they are his own word and revealed will: so also by punishing, even in this life, with utter ruin and destruction, all those who have most violently and maliciously opposed themselves against it, and persecuted the Saints of God for the profession hereof; as may appear notably in the examples of Antiochus Epiphanes, Herod, Nero, Domitian, Diocletian, Julian the apostate and many others; who by their shameful and horrible ⟨p. 329⟩deaths testified and proved the scriptures to be the truth of God, which they had oppugned and persecuted the whole course of their wicked lives.
And as the Lord by preseruing and defending the scriptures, from the beginning vnto this day, doth euidently shew that they are his own word and reuealed wil: so also by punishing, euen in this life, with vtter ruine and destruction, al those who haue most violently and malitiously opposed themselues against it, and persecuted the Saints of God for the profession hereof; as may appeare notably in the examples of Antiochus Epiphanes, Herod, Nero, Domitian, Dioclesian, Iulian the apostata and many others; who by their shamefull and horrible ⟨p. 329⟩