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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. 3 The condition of the covenant is faith and repentance,1 neither of which doth he perform who doth not see nor feel the burden of his sins; for we will never rest upon Christ for our salvation, unless we see that we have no means of our own to escape condemnation, we will never seek unto Christ to be our redeemer unless we perceive that we are the bondslaves of sin and Satan, we will never labour to obtain the riches of his righteousness, unless we discern our own nakedness and beggary, we will never come unto Christ to be washed and purged from the pollution of our sins and corruptions with his blood, unless we see our natural filthiness, we will never desire to be eased of the heavy burden of our sins, unless we feel the weight of them, we will never entreat Christ to be our Physician, unless we find that our souls are sick in sin; we will never go unto him who is the author of life, unless we see that we are dead in our sins, in a word we will never entreat Gods mercy, until we feel our own ⟨p. 412⟩misery.
§ Sect. 3 The condition of the couenant is faith and repentance,1 neither of which doth hee performe who doth not see nor feele the burthen of his sinnes; for wee will neuer rest vpon Christ for our saluation, vnlesse wee see that wee haue no meanes of our owne to escape condemnation, wee will neuer seeke vnto Christ to be our redeemer vnlesse wee perceiue that we are the bondslaues of sinne and Sathan, wee will neuer labour to obtaine the riches of his righteousnesse, vnlesse we discerne our owne nakednesse and beggerie, we will neuer come vnto Christ to be washed and purged from the pollution of our sinnes and corruptions with his bloud, vnlesse we see our naturall filthinesse, wee will neuer desire to be eased of the heauy burthen of our sinnes, vnlesse wee feele the waight of them, we will neuer intreat Christ to be our Physition, vnlesse wee find that our soules are sicke in sinne; we will neuer goe vnto him who is the author of life, vnlesse we see that we are dead in our sinnes, in a word we will neuer intreat Gods mercy, vntill wee feele our owne ⟨p. 412⟩miserie.