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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. 5 The last sign of unfeigned and true repentance is if it be mixed with faith; for true repentance is a fruit of faith,1 and they are never disjoined the one from the other, neither can we ever sorrow for sin as we ought, till we have some assurance of Gods mercy and love in Jesus Christ; for otherwise though our sorrow be never so great yet it is not so much for sin as for the punishment thereof, not so much because we have thereby displeased God, as for those torments of conscience which we presently endure, and the torments of hell which for the time to come we fear. And therefore this desperate sorrow is it self to be sorrowed for, as being severed from faith and therefore sinful,2 and not proceeding from any love of God or hatred of sin, but from the fear of punishment and condemnation.
§. Sect. 5 The last signe of vnfained and true repentance is if it be mixed with faith; for true repentance is a fruit of faith,1 and they are neuer disioined the one from the other, neither can we euer sorrow for sinne as we ought, till we haue some assurance of Gods mercy and loue in Iesus Christ; for otherwise though our sorrow be neuer so great yet it is not so much for sinne as for the punishment thereof, not so much because wee haue thereby displeased God, as for those torments of conscience which we presently indure, and the torments of hell which for the time to come we feare. And therefore this desperate sorrow is it selfe to be sorrowed for, as being seuered from faith and therefore sinnefull,2 and not proceeding from any loue of God or hatred of sinne, but from the feare of punishment and condemnation.
- 1The 5. sign when it proceedeth from faith.The 5. signe when it proceedeth from faith.
- 2Rom. 14.23