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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 If then we could have any assurance that we are in the number of those whom Christ calleth and inviteth unto him, we must have first a sight, and sense, of our sins,1 and a true and feeling knowledge of our miserable, and wretched estate, in which we are, by reason of them, and the punishment due unto them. Secondly we must be weary in bearing this heavy burden, as being most irksome and grievous unto us. Thirdly we must have an earnest desire to be eased and freed from it. Lastly we must come ⟨p. 410⟩unto Christ by a true and lively faith, to the end that he may ease and release us.
§ Sect. 2 If then wee could haue any assurance that wee are in the number of those whom Christ calleth and inuiteth vnto him, wee must haue first a sight, and sense, of our sinnes,1 and a true and feeling knowledge of our miserable, and wretched estate, in which we are, by reason of them, and the punishment due vnto them. Secondly we must be wearie in bearing this heauie burthen, as being most irkesome and grieuous vnto us. Thirdly wee must haue an earnest desire to be eased and freed from it. Lastly we must come ⟨p. 410⟩vnto Christ by a true and liuely faith, to the ende that hee may ease and release vs.
- 1What things are required in those who truly repent.
1For the first We must come to the knowledge of our sins, before we can truly repent of them, for we cannot sorrow for them, until we see them; neither is it sufficient that we see, and know, that we are grievous and heinous sinners, unless we also feel the weight of this intolerable burden, pressing us down, and vexing, and grieving us even to the very heart; for wicked and profane men may see their sins, (for what can hide them from their eyes being so innumerable in multitude, and so grievous and heinous in respect of their quantity, and quality, but yet they feel not their weight, neither are troubled with them; nay it is a pastime to a fool to do wickedly, as it is