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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.
1This desire in the Scriptures is resembled to hunger and thirst; in which these two things concur, first a sense of our want, and secondly an appetite or earnest desire to be satisfied, and to have our want supplied; and so in these spiritual things, first we feel the want of Gods graces and Christs righteousness, and then we earnestly desire that we may be filled and satisfied with them. So that to hunger and thirst after the grace of God, and the righteousness of Christ, and to be weary and heavy laden are much alike, & both are blessed of the Lord; for as those who hunger, and thirst after righteousness, are blessed because they shall be satisfied, as it is, Matth. 5.6. So they are blessed who are weary and heavy laden, with the burden of their sins, for such Christ calleth unto him, and hath promised to ease them, that is, to give unto them the remission of their sins, and to release them of this burden, by taking it upon his own ⟨p. 418⟩shoulders. And as our Saviour calleth and inviteth unto him such as are weary and heavy laden. Matth. 11.28. So in divers other places, he inviteth and calleth those, who hunger and thirst after his righteousness So Esa. 55.1. To every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters, and ye that have no silver come buy, and eat, come I say buy wine, and milk, without money. and John 7.37. Jesus cried saying; If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. Apoc. 21.6. I will give to him who is a thirst, 2of the well of the water of life freely. and 22.17. Let him that is a thirst come, and let whosoever will, take of the well of the water of life freely. a notable example of this thirsting we have in David. Psal. 63.1. O God thou art my God, early will I seek thee, my soul thirsteth for thee. and 42.1. as the hart brayeth for the rivers of water, so panteth my soul after thee O God. 2. my soul thirsteth for God, even for the living God. and