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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.
but behold the infinite mercies of our gracious God, even when they wallowed in this filthy sink of all impiety the Lord calleth them to repentance, and when as they had forsaken him and fled from him, desiring nothing less then to make or meddle with him, the Lord calleth unto them, and he in whose power it was every minute utterly to destroy them, first of all desireth a parley, he who might well abhor to vouchsafe them his presence, earnestly desireth conference with them, saying. ver. 18. Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord; though your sins were as crimson, they shall be made as white as snow; though they were red like scarlet, they shall be as wool.
but behould the infinite mercies of our gratious God, euen when they wallowed in this filthie sinke of all impietie the Lord calleth them to repentance, and when as they had forsaken him and fled from him, desiring nothing lesse then to make or meddle with him, the Lord calleth vnto them, and hee in whose power it was euery minute vtterly to destroy them, first of all desireth a parley, he who might well abhorre to vouchsafe them his presence, earnestly desireth conference with them, saying. ver. 18. Come now and let vs reason together saith the Lord; though your sinnes were as crimson, they shall bee made as white as snow; though they were red like searlet, they shall be as wool.
§. Sect. 6 1In like manner in the time of our saviour Christ the same Jews most wickedly rebelled against the Lord; for when the Lord in his rich mercy sent the promised Messiah, to deliver them out of the hands of their enemies, they would not receive him, nay they continually afflicted and persecuted him, they mocked and reviled him, they haled him before the judgment seat, and caused him to be condemned who came to justify and acquit them; they buffeted and whipped him, and preferred a wicked murderer before him, who preferred their salvation before his own life, lastly in most ignominious sort they crucified and killed him. After all which outrageous wickedness offered against the Lord of life, they continued in their hardness of heart and impenitency, never acknowledging their fault not desiring pardon, nay rather as they had persecuted the head our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, so when they could offer no more wrong unto him in his own person, they were ready to satisfy and glut their malicious rage in persecuting his poor members. Now what more hellish impiety was ever committed? what more outrageous sin was ever heard of; who would ever have imagined that there was any hope of