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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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that he for his own names sake without any respect of our works or worthiness freely multiplieth his benefits upon us, should with hold our rightful inheritance in his heavenly kingdom from us, which our saviour Christ hath purchased for us by his precious death & bloodshed? and therefore seeing we have undoubted right to the pardon of our sins because Christ Jesus hath satisfied for them, & just title to our heavenly inheritance which our Saviour hath purchased for us with so dear and all-sufficient a price, let us in the name of Christ go boldly unto the throne of grace, desiring a general acquittance of that debt which is already paid, nay let us not fear to approach the throne of Gods severe justice, and to claim our heavenly inheritance which Christ hath so dearly purchased.
that he for his own names sake without any respect of our works or worthinesse freely multiplieth his benefites vpon vs, should with hould our rightfull inheritance in his heauenly kingdome from vs, which our sauiour Christ hath purchased for vs by his pretious death & bloudshed? and therefore seeing wee haue vndoubted right to the pardon of our sins because Christ Iesus hath satisfied for them, & iust title to our heauenly inheritāce which our Sauiour hath purchased for vs with so deare and all-sufficient a price, let vs in the name of Christ goe bouldly vnto the throne of grace, desiring a generall acquittance of that debt which is alreadie paid, nay let vs not feare to approach the throne of Gods seuere iustice, and to claime our heauenly inheritance which Christ hath so dearly purchased.
§. Sect. 4 Furthermore we are to consider that our saviour and redeemer is so gracious and bountiful, so rich in mercy,1 and so full of all power virtue and perfection, that our sins should not discourage us from coming unto him, for the more miserable wretched & sinful we are, the more fit subjects we are, whereupon he may exercise and show the infinite riches of bounty, mercy, virtue and all sufficiency. If we were but a little soiled with sin, it were not so great a matter to make us clean but when we are most filthily defiled, and our pollution is ingrained in us as it were with a scarlet die; when our unclean corruption sticks as fast to our souls, as the Ethiopian blackness to their skins, then is the virtue of the excellent laver of Christs blood sufficiently manifested, when as he purgeth us and maketh us clean, washing away all our filthy corruptions, and making our