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The conflict between the flesh and the spirit. Or the last part of The…The conflict betvveene the flesh and the spirit. Or the last part of The…
The conflict between the flesh and the spirit. Or the last part of The Christian warfare wherein is described the nature of these combatants, the malice and power of the flesh and fleshly lusts, with the means whereby we may subdue and overcome them. By John Downame Bachelor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods Word.The conflict betvveene the flesh and the spirit. Or the last part of The Christian warfare wherein is described the nature of these combatants, the malice and power of the flesh and fleshly lusts, with the meanes whereby we may subdue and ouercome them. By Iohn Dovvname Batchelar in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods Word.
London: printed by William Jones, 1618London: printed by William Iones, 1618
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Book 1 › Chapter 12: Of the fleshes policies respecting our estates.
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and that it is but a counterfeit and carnal 1righteousness, such as was in the heathens, which doth not spring from the root of piety; that we cannot have a lively faith without saving knowledge, nor do any good works without faith; that without faith we cannot please 2God, and whatsoever we do without it is sin. That if our justice arise not from godliness, it is but merely moral civility, and if our love of our brethren spring not from the clear fountain of Gods love; then it streameth from the filthy puddle of self-love. Let us know that God will be worshipped, not after the commandments of men, but after his own revealed will, and that whosoever serve GOD principally because the princes law requireth it, and not because God commandeth it, he worshippeth his King above his God. That bodily exercise profiteth ⟨p. 102⟩3nothing, and that the Lord will be worshipped in spirit and 4truth; that God regardeth not formal service which riseth rather from custom then conscience, and that the religion of the soul, is the soul of religion, without which it is but a dead carcass. That God can endure no rivals in his service, nor no halting between Jehovah and Baal, God and the world; he cannot abide a double or divided heart, but he will either have all, or leave all to the Devil and the world; and finally that our good meaning will be no currant payment in the day of account, seeing it hath not Gods image and stamp upon it, but is coined in the forge of our own brain, and hath on it the print of our own inventions, which the Lord esteemeth no better then high treason against his royal crown and dignity.
and that it is but a counterfet and carnall 1righteousnesse, such as was in the heathens, which doth not spring from the roote of piety; that wee cannot haue a liuely faith without sauing knowledge, nor doe any good workes without faith; that without faith wee cannot please 2