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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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§. Sect. 1 And so much for answering Satan's tentations drawn from hardness of hart,1 whereby he laboureth to persuade poor humbled sinners that they are utterly destitute of of repentance; but if he fail of his purpose then he will endeavour to make them believe that though they have some show of repentance yet it is not such as God requireth: for either he will affirm that it is hypocritical and dissembled rather for fear of punishment then for hatred of sin or true love of God; or if it be true yet it is not sufficient as being in very small measure and in no proportion answerable to our heinous sins.
§. Sect. 1 ANd so much for answering Sathans tentations drawn from hardnesse of hart,1 whereby he laboureth to perswade poore humbled sinners that they are vtterly destitute of of repentance; but if hee faile of his purpose then hee will indeauour to make them beleeue that though they haue some shew of repentance yet it is not such as God requireth: for either hee will affirme that it is hypocriticall and dissembled rather for feare of punishment then for hatred of sinne or true loue of God; or if it bee true yet it is not sufficient as being in verie small measure and in no proportion answearable to our hainous sinnes.
- 1Of the signs of true repentance. & first of the several degrees thereofOf the signes of true repentance. & first of the seuerall degrees therof
Against both which tentations it behooveth the humbled sinner to arm himself that he may repel them when they are suggested; and to this purpose that he may prove his repentance true and unfeigned, he is to take a true search of his own heart and conscience, and to examine his repentance according to some undoubted signs which may serve as touchstones to discover whether it be true and unfeigned, or dissembled & hypocritical. The first undoubted sign of unfeigned repentance is when we can observe in our selves the several degrees or parts thereof as they have been wrought in us by Gods spirit, for from the enumeration of all the parts we may conclude that we have the whole. The first degree is that by the law we come to the knowledge, and acknowledgement that we are heinous and grievous sinners