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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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Whosoever therefore have not a true sense and feeling of the heavy burden of their sins; they will never come unto Christ, neither can they ever have any assurance that he will ease them, & consequently they are destitute of a true faith which is the chief condition of the covenant of grace; but as they want faith, so also they can never attain unto true repentance. For so long as they have not the sense of their sins they are not grieved with them, neither do they desire to leave and forsake them, and as those who bearing a burden and are not vexed with the weight, they are not weary of bearing it, nor desirous to leave it; so those who being loaded with the unsupportable burden of their sins and have no sense of the weight they are not grieved with weariness nor desirous to be freed from it, and consequently they are destitute of true repentance which is nothing else but an hearty grief and a true sorrow for our sins past and an earnest desire and endeavour to leave and forsake them in the time to come.
Whosoeuer therfore haue not a true sense and feeling of the heauie burthen of their sinnes; they wil neuer come vnto Christ, neither can they euer haue any assurance that he will ease thē, & consequently they are destiture of a true faith which is the chiefe condition of the couenant of grace; but as they want faith, so also they can neuer attaine vnto true repentance. For so long as they haue not the sense of their sinnes they are not grieued with them, neither doe they desire to leaue and forsake them, and as those who bearing a burthen and are not vexed with the waight, they are not wearie of bearing it, nor desirous to leaue it; so those who being loaded with the vnsupportable burthen of their sinnes and haue no sense of the waight they are not grieued with wearinesse nor desirous to be freed from it, and consequently they are destitute of true repentance which is nothing els but an harty griefe and a true sorrow for our sinnes past and an earnest desire and indeuour to leaue and forsake them in the time to come.
§. Sect. 4 So that whosoever have not a true sense and feeling of the unsupportable weight of sin,1