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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.
Whosoever therefore hungereth and thirsteth after the grace of God, and righteousness of Christ, whosoever is weary and heavy laden, that is, who so hath a true sense, and feeling of his sins, and is vexed, and grieved, with the burden thereof, and withal, his heart desireth to to be eased of his load, though he think himself in a most miserable estate, yet if he come unto Christ, and with blind Bartemaeus cry out O son of David have mercy on me, I may fitly say unto him, as it was say do unto this blind man: Be of good comfort, for Christ calleth thee.
Whosoeuer therefore hungreth and thirsteth after the grace of God, and righteousnes of Christ, whosoeuer is wearie and heauie laden, that is, who so hath a true sense, and feeling of his sinnes, and is vexed, and greeued, with the burthen thereof, and withall, his heart desireth to to be eased of his loade, though he thinke himselfe in a most miserable estate, yet if he come vnto Christ, and with blind Bartemaeus crie out O sonne of Dauid haue mercy on mee, I may fitly say vnto him, as it was say do vnto this blind man: Bee of good comfort, for Christ calleth thee.
§. Sect. 8 The last thing required in those whom Christ calleth, is, that they come unto him.1 for to whom should we come for ease, but unto Christ himself, seeing their is neither saint nor Angel, that can ease us, for the weight of one sin would press them down into hell; whereas our Saviour Christ is able to bear the burden of our sins, nay he hath already borne them, that we might be delivered from them. As it is, 1. Pet. 2.24. neither it is likely, that either saint or Angel, ⟨p. 419⟩would so willingly help us as our Saviour Christ Jesus, who so tenderly loved us that he came into the world, to lay down his own most precious life as a price for our redemption; and though they were willing, yet they have not the like ability unto him, who hath all power in heaven, and earth committed unto him,