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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1Thirdly, we must expel out of our cogitations, the remembrance of all worldly businesses, pleasures & delights, least they distract our minds in the hearing of the word, and so choking this heavenly seed make it fruitless; for as the vessel which is already full, will receive no more, and whatsoever is powered into it, spilleth upon the ground: so the mind that is full of worldly meditations, is not fit to receive the word of God, but as soon as it offereth to enter, it is kept back and so perisheth; for God and Mammon, the holy word of God and the cares and vanities of the world, can never dwell at the same time together, but as soon as one entereth it expelleth the other. As therefore men purposing to write a sermon, do make clean their writing tables, by blotting out that which was written in them before, for otherwise there would be such a mixture & confusion, that nothing would be legible; so when we purpose to carry away a sermon fair written in the tables of our memories, we must first blot out all worldly affairs and businesses, otherwise there will be nothing but confusion, and we shall not be able to recall any thing to our remembrance.
1Thirdly, we must expell out of our cogitations, the remembrance of all worldly busineses, pleasures & delights, least they distract our mindes in the hearing of the word, and so choaking this heauenly seede make it fruitlesse; for as the vessell which is alreadie full, will receiue no more, and whatsoeuer is powered into it, spilleth vpon the ground: so the minde that is full of worldly meditations, is not fit to receiue the word of God, but as soone as it offereth to enter, it is kept backe and so perisheth; for God and Mammon, the holy word of God and the cares and vanities of the world, can neuer dwel at the same time together, but as soone as one entreth it expelleth the other. As therefore men purposing to write a sermon, doe make cleane their writing tables, by blotting out yt which was written in them before, for otherwise there would be such a mixture & confusion, that nothing would be legible; so whē we purpose to carry away a sermon faire writtē in the tables of our memories, we must first blot out all worldly affaires and businesses, otherwise there will be nothing but confusion, and we shall not be able to recall any thing to our remembrance.
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