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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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Lastly and most especially we are to use earnest and hearty prayer unto the Lord that he may open our blind eyes, 1so as we may see the wonderful things of his law, that he will take away our stony harts, and give us fleshly hearts in which his word may more easily be imprinted; that he will with the cyle of his grace bow our stubborn wills, and make them flexible and inclinable to perform obedience to his will, revealed in his word, that he will sanctify our affections and purge them from their natural corruptions, that he will distil the heavenly dew of his holy spirit into our minds and barren harts, that so the seed of his word being watered there by may yield a plentiful harvest in grace and godliness.
Lastly and most especially we are to vse earnest and harty prayer vnto the Lord that he may open our blind eyes, 1so as we may see the wonderfull things of his law, that he will take away our stonie harts, and giue vs fleshly hearts in which his word may more easily be imprinted; that hee will with the cyle of his grace bow our stubborne willes, and make them flexible and inclinable to perfourme obedience to his wil, reuealed in his word, that he wil sanctifie our affections and purge them from their naturall corruptions, that hee will distill the heauenly dew of his holy spirit into our mindes and barraigne harts, that so the seede of his worde being watred there by may yeeld a plentifull haruest in grace and godlinesse.
- 1We are to use earnest prayer Ps. 119.18.We are to vse earnest praier Ps. 119.18.
§. Sect. 5 And these are the duties which we must perform in the time of our preparation: now after we are thus prepared and have presented our selves into Gods holy assemblies,