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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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1But when we were in this desperate condition, and now come to this height of misery, that we desired still to live in it, and (like the Israelites with Moses) would have been angry with any who should have offered unto us means of deliverance, because not only our other parts and faculties, but also our wills and hearts, our love and liking, with all other our affections, were enthralled in this service, and voluntarily leaving their Lord and creator, wholly adhered to Satan and delighted to do his will: even then our gracious God, infinite in all mercy and goodness, of his mere grace and free good will, sent his only son into world to redeem us with his precious death, to vanquish and subdue all the enemies of our salvation, and to set us at liberty, who were embondaged, and were so in love with our thraldom, that we did not so much as desire to be freed from it. Who having thus paid the price of our redemption, and provided a sovereign salve for all our sores of sin, doeth not so leave us (for then we should have ben never the better) but applieth the power and efficacy of his merits unto us, and (as it were with his own hand) •ayeth the plaster upon our mortal wounds, whilst by his word made effectual by his spirit, he maketh known unto us this excellent work of our redemption, and the promises of grace and salvation made to all believing and repentant sinners, by which he begetteth this faith in us, wherewith, as with an hand, we lay hold on and apply unto us his righteousness, death and obedience for our justification and redemption and so in respect of right we are freed from our sins, so as they cannot condemn us because God in Christ hath forgiven them, and also from the tyranny and thraldom of Satan, death, hell and condemnation, 2so as they shall be never able to hurt us or lay any thing to our charge. And not resting here, our powerful Saviour sendeth his spirit with many legions of his graces into our ⟨p. 186⟩hearts, who pull us out of the dominion of sin and Satan, so as they cannot rule and reign in us as in times past, regenerate and purify us from the filth and corruption of sin by power of the same death which delivered us from the guilt and punishment due unto it, and enable us to serve God in newness of life by applying likewise unto us the virtue of his resurrection.