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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.
So likewise in the time of the prophet Isaiah,1 to what a notorious height of wickedness were the same people grown as the Lord by his prophet doth decipher and describe them in the first chapter of that prophecy. In the 2. ver. he calleth heaven and earth to witness their horrible rebellion, in the 3. verse he showeth that their unthankfulness for all his mercies, far exceeded the ungratitude of brute beasts, in the 4. verse he exclaimeth out against them calling them a sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of the wicked corrupt children who had forsaken the Lord, and provoked the holy one of Israel to anger. In the 5. and 6. verses he showeth their hardness of heart and obstinacy in their rebellion which was so great that though the Lord sent afflictions & chastise merits upon them, yet they were no whit reformed but waxed worse and worse, and that this was not the case of some few but of all the whole body of the people, for the whole head was sick and the whole heart was heaute. and that from the soul of the foot to the crown of the head there was nothing sound therein, but wounds, and swellings, and sores full of corruption, the cure whereof they utterly neglected. In the 10. verse he matcheth the sins of both prince and people, with those crying sins and outrageous wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah which brought down from heaven fire and brimstone to consume them. In the 11.12.13. and 14. verses he complaineth of their filthy hypocrisy in Gods outward worship joined with the utter neglect of true godliness and his spiritual service, which caused the Lord to detest all their sacrifices, sabbaths, and new moons. So that their could not be imagined greater wickedness in any people, respecting those notable means which the Lord continually granted unto them above all other nations for their own conversion; and therefore who would not have thought ⟨p. 466⟩their state to be most desperate, who would not have looked daily that the Lord should have consumed them with fire and brimstone, or have caused the earth to have swallowed them up alive as it did Corah and his associates?
So likewise in the time of the prophet Esay,1 to what a notorious height of wickednesse were the same people growne as the Lord by his prophet doth decipher and describe them in the first chapter of that prophecie. In the 2. ver. he calleth heauen and earth to witnesse their horrible rebellion, in the 3. verse hee sheweth that their vnthankfulnesse for all his mercies, far exceeded the vngratitude of bruite beasts, in the 4. verse hee exclaymeth out against them calling them a sinfullnation, a people laden with iniquitie, a seed of the wicked corrupt children who had for saken the Lord, and prouoked the holy one of Israell to anger. In the 5. and 6. verses he sheweth their hardnesse of heart and obstinacie in their rebellion which was so great that though the Lord sent afflictions & chastize mentes vpon them, yet they were no whit reformed but waxed worse and worse, and that this was not the case of some few but of al the whole body of the people, for the whole head was sicke and the whole heart was heaute. and that from the soule of the foote to the crowne of the head there was nothing sound therein, but wounds, and swellings, and sores full of corruption, the cure whereof they vtterly neglected. In the 10. verse hee matcheth the sinnes of both prince and people, with those crying sinnes and outragious wickednesse of Sodome and Gomorah which brought down from heauen fire and brimstone to consume them. In the 11.12.13. and 14. verses he complaineth of their filthie hypocrisie in Gods outward worship ioyned with the vtter neglect of true godlinesse and his spirituall seruice, which caused the Lord to detest al their sacrifices, sabbothes, and newe moones. So that their could not bee imagined greater wickednesse in any people, respecting those notable meanes which the Lorde continually graunted vnto them aboue all other nations for their owne conuersion; and therefore who would not haue thought