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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. XL. Consolations for such as bewail their hardness of hart and wants in prayer.
CHAP. XL. Consolations for such as bewayle their hardnesse of hart and wants in prayer.
§. Sect. 1 Others complain that they are so overwhelmed with their hardness of hart,1 and drowsy dullness of spirit that either they cannot pray at all, or if they do it is barrenly without all form or fashion; or if they have the eloquence of the tongue & good set forms of prayer yet they perform it coldly and drowsily, without all earnestness and fervency of spirit, having their minds carried away with wandering thoughts, so that their prayers are but mere liplabour, & therefore it were better not to pray at all, because they cannot perform ⟨p. 496⟩this duty in any good manner or measure as God requireth.
§. Sect. 1 OThers complaine that they are so ouerwhelmed with their hardnesse of hart,1 and drowsie dulnesse of spirit that eyther they cannot pray at all, or if they doe it is barrainely without all forme or fashion; or if they haue the eloquence of the tongue & good set formes of praier yet they perfourme it coldly and drowsilie, without all earnestnesse and feruencie of spirit, hauing their minds caried away with wandring thoughts, so that their praiers are but meere liplabour, & therefore it were better not to pray at all, because they cannot performe ⟨p. 496⟩this dutie in any good maner or measure as God requireth.
- 1Consolations for such as complain that they cannot pray at all.