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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.
as our saviour hath taught us. Luke 12.45.46. And we know what happened to the rich man who said unto his soul, soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years, live at ease, eat drink and take thy pastime, even the same night God said unto him, O fool this night will they fetch thy soul from thee, and then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided. Luke 12.19.20.
as our sauiour hath taught vs. Luke 12.45.46. And we know what hapned to the rich man who saide vnto his soule, soule thou hast much goods laid vp for many yeeres, liue at ease, eate drinke and take thy pastime, euen the same night God said vnto him, O foole this night will they fetch thy soule from thee, and then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided. Luke 12.19.20.
§ Sect. 4 Moreover how many may we observe in our own experience who have deferred their repentance from day to day thinking to repent either in their old age or in the time of their sickness,1 and have been prevented and cut of by God's judgment? do we not see that many have been taken away with sudden and violent deaths, many deprived of the use of their senses, memory, and understanding, in the time of their sickness and have so dyed mad, frantic, and senseless, many who come to their old age and yet are further from ⟨p. 381⟩repentance then in the time of their youth. And this cometh to pass by the just judgment of God for what can be more righteous then that the Lord should contemn them at the hour of death who have contemned him their whole life? that they should loose their memory and understanding in the time of sickness, who have continually abused them to the dishonour of God in the time of their health; that they should dye impenitent who have lived in impenitency, that they should forget God when they are ready to go out of the world, who would never remember him whilst they were in the world; that God should withdraw his grace when they are sick, which being often offered they despised when they were in health. And this the Lord threateneth