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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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Secondly,1 we are oftentimes to set the law as a glass before us that so we may see our deformities, and to examine our lives thereby as it were by a rule or square, that so we may know both how often we have erred & transgressed it in the time past, and how unable we are to perform it for the time to come in that exact manner which God requireth. For as the deformities and spots in the face though they be great and many, cannot be discerned of those who have them, unless they look themselves in a glass, and though every one else doth plainly see them, yet the party himself doth least of all perceive them: so though our spiritual deformities and filthy spots of sin, appear most ugly and odious in the eyes of God & men, so that every one seemeth to point at them, yet we our selves will never discern them, unless we set the looking glass of the law before us.
Secondly,1 we are oftentimes to set the law as a glasse before vs that so we may see our deformities, and to examine our liues thereby as it were by a rule or square, that so wee may know both how often we haue erred & transgressed it in the time past, and how vnable we are to performe it for the time to come in that exact maner which God requireth. For as the deformities and spots in the face though they be great and many, cannot be descerned of those who haue them, vnlesse they looke themselues in a glasse, and though euery one els doth plainly see thē, yet the party himselfe doth least of all perceiue them: so though our spirituall deformities and filthy spots of sinne, appeare most vgly and odious in the eies of God & men, so that euery one seemeth to point at them, yet wee our selues will neuer discerne them, vnlesse we set the looking glasse of the law before vs.
- 12. Meditating in the law.
Thirdly,1