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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.
he that is ignorant, must hunger after milk, and desire to be instructed in the principles of religion; he that hath a good measure of knowledge, may desire stronger meat, that is, attend unto the more deep points of divinity; in a word, every man is to examine his particular state, and to search out his greatest wants, that so coming to hear the word, he may more diligently apply such doctrines, instructions, and exhortations as shall be most fit for his use and benefit; for that which is food to one is poison to another, and that salve which is fit to heal one sore, doth make another to fester and rankle, and one part of the word of God being applied to men of divers estates, doth work divers effects, one it feedeth, another it poisoneth, one it healeth another it woundeth, to one it is the savour of life unto life, and to another it is the savour of death unto death: and therefore before we come to the hearing thereof, we are to examine our states that we may apply and make profitable use to our selves of that which is most fit to nourish and strengthen us in Gods graces.
he that is ignorant, must hunger after milke, and desire to be instructed in the principles of religion; he that hath a good measure of knowledge, may desire stronger meate, that is, attend vnto the more deepe poynts of diuinitie; in a word, euery man is to examine his particular state, and to search out his greatest wants, that so comming to heare the word, he may more diligently apply such doctrines, instructions, and exhortations as shall bee most fit for his vse and benefit; for that which is foode to one is poyson to another, and that salue which is fit to heale one sore, doth make another to fester and ranckell, and one part of the word of God being applied to men of diuers estates, doth worke diuers effects, one it feedeth, another it poysoneth, one it healeth another it woundeth, to one it is the sauour of life vnto life, and to another it is the sauour of death vnto death: and therefore before we come to the hearing thereof, we are to examine our states that we may apply and make profitable vse to our selues of that which is most fit to nourish and strengthen vs in Gods graces.
Lastly and most especially we are to use earnest and hearty prayer unto the Lord that he may open our blind eyes,