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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. XXII. Satan's temptations suggested against the translations of holy Scriptures answered.
CHAP. XXII. Sathans temptations suggested against the translations of holy Scriptures answered.
§. Sect. 1 And so much for answering Satan's second temptation whereby he laboureth to make men neglect the hearing of Gods word,1 that so they may never be effectually called. Now thirdly, if he cannot persuade men that the Scriptures are not the word of God, that so he may take away all the authority thereof, then he will take exceptions against the translation; suggesting into their minds, that though the Scriptures be the word of God as they were penned in their own proper languages, by men inspired by his spirit, yet for ought they know being unlearned, the Scriptures may be corruptly translated, altered from their first original, and things added and detracted at the translators pleasure. To this I answer, that not only professors of religion, but also Pagans, Infidels, Epicures and Atheists, who are even the very limbs of the devil, have been skilful and learned in these languages; and therefore if the translations were not near the original; who could stop their mouths from inveighing against such falsehood? Who could restrain them from declaiming against such corruption, seeing they so hate and abhor this truth, as that they wish the utter extirpation thereof, and with extreme malice oppose themselves against it, persecuting and murdering to their uttermost power, whosoever embrace and profess it? Moreover, we know that the Jews who more maliciously malign Christians and christianity than the Turks and Pagans, do notwithstanding agree with us in the translation of the old Testament, and can take no exception against the new. Thirdly, there hath been ever since Christs coming many sectaries and heretics, who for the maintenance of their opinions have but sought to corrupt some few places of the Scriptures, but still God hath raised up some godly learned in the original tongues, who have confuted them and cleared the text; how