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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. 2 Now this preparation doth principally consist, first in the purging of our corrupt affections,1 to which duty the wise man exhorteth us; Eccl. 4.17. Take heed to thy feet when thou enterest into the house of God, that is, be careful to purge thine affections which are the feet of thy soul. And this was typically signified by the outward washing of the Israelites before the promulgation of the law,2 Exod. 19.10. where by the washing of their clothes and bodies, the purging of the secret corruptions of the heart was signified and represented. Which duty is necessarily to be performed, of all those who will hear the word with profit: for as the most pure liquor is defiled and made unprofitable for use, if it be put into a polluted and stinking vessel; so the pure liquor of Gods word is defiled and made fruitless, unto all those who receive it into an heart polluted with unclean affections: As therefore Moses was enjoined by God to put off his shoes from his feet, before he might tread on that ground made holy by Gods presence, or receive the Lords embassy to his people; so he requireth of us that we put off the shoes, that is, the corruption of our affections, before we tread upon the holy ground of his Church, there to hear the glad tidings of the Gospel, concerning our everlasting delivery out of the bondage of our spiritual enemies. What these affections are the Apostle James partly showeth, Jam. 1.19. namely wrath,3 filthiness, maliciousness, to which Peter addeth dissimulation and hypocrisy, envy and evil speaking, 1. Pet. 2.1. And to these also we may add all other like unto them.
§. Sect. 2 Now this preparation doth principally consist, first in the purging of our corrupt affections,1 to which duty the wise man exhorteth vs; Eccl. 4.17. Take heed to thy feete when thou entrest into the house of God, that is, be carefull to purge thine affections which are the feete of thy soule. And this was typically signified by the outward washing of the Israelites before the promulgation of the law,