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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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CHAP. XXXVI. Other reasons to persuade the weak Christian of the remission of his sins.
CHAP. XXXVI. Other reasons to perswade the weake Christian of the remission of his sinnes.
§. Sect. 1 And these are the reasons which may be drawn from every of the persons of the Trinity,1 to assure us of the remission of our sins; to which we may ad divers others. First, the believing of the remission of our sins in an article of our Creed, which we do daily confess and profess, which is not left unto our choice to believe or not to believe, but as we confess it with the mouth, so we are bound to believe it with the heart, if we would be reckoned in the number of Christians. Why then should we doubt of that which we are bound to perform; and if we do not we grievously sin through infidelity, which is more dangerous & damnable then all our other sins whatsoever? And therefore though there were no other reason to move us, though our heinous and manifold sins should make it seem unto us never so incredible, yet let us set aside all impediments ⟨p. 461⟩and break through the violence of all objections, and believe in obedience to Gods commandments, and because it is our duty, the performance whereof is very acceptable unto God, and the neglect whereof is a sin most dangerous and damnable. Which that we may perform, let us carefully observe the condition of the covenant of grace, that is, let us rest and rely upon Christ Jesus alone for our salvation by a lively faith, and turn unto God by unfeigned repentance, and then there is no place left to doubting of that which in duty we are bound to believe.
§. Sect. 1 ANd these are the reasons which may be drawn from euery of the persons of the Trinitie,