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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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they are not outright killed, but only brought into a deadly sound, the faculties themselves are not quite perished, but the functions and operations of them only for a time are hindered and interrupted.
they are not outright killed, but onely brought into a deadly sownde, the faculties themselues are not quite perished, but the functions and operations of them onely for a time are hindred and interrupted.
1Secondly, though the prime and principal, the radical and fundamental graces which are essential to the life and being of a Christian cannot be lost, as faith, hope, charity, affiance and the true fear of God, without which a Christian ceaseth to be a Christ an and of the child of God becometh the child of the devil, for the just shall ever live by their own faith; yet other graces which are secondary fruits springing from them, and necessary to the well-being of a Christian, as fullness of persuasion, peace of conscience, zeal of Gods glory, the sense and feeling of Gods love & favour, the comforts of the spirit, familiar acquaintance with God, and joy in the holy Ghost, which are the life of our life, may for a time through the assaults of the flesh and violence of temptations be much blunted and deadened, yea, in respect of present apprehension, quite lost and extinguished, as we see in the example of Job, who sometimes conceived of God, as of his enemy, and in David who complaineth that he was rejected and forsaken, 2and that the terrors of God did fight against him, and prayeth that God would create in him a clean heart and and renew a right spirit in him, that he would make him to hear joy and gladness, and restore him to the joy of his salvation. Implying by these phrases that these graces were so utterly lost in his sense and feeling, that being quite abolished and annihilated, there needed not only a renovation and repairing but a new making and creation. Even as a man by sickness may loose his beauty and complexion, his flesh ⟨p. 313⟩