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A20752	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 ...	Downame, John, d. 1652.	1604 (1604)	STC 7133; ESTC S1536	575,484	731

well may the tempests of Sathans temptations shake vs but they shall neuer remoue vs from our firme hold and certaine assurance which wee haue in Christ because wee apprehend him nay rather are apprehended or taken hold of by him as the Apostle speaketh Phil. 3.12 Phil. 3.12 And no man no not the whole power of hell is able to plucke vs out of his hands as our Sauiour speaketh Iohn 10.28 For though they be mighty to destroy yet Christ is almightie to saue Ioh 10.28 Esa 63.1 as it is Esa 63.1 and therefore let vs not suffer our soules to be racked betweene hope and feare 1. Pet. 1.13 but let vs trust perfectly on the grace that is brought vnto vs by the reuelation of Iesus Christ as the Apostle exhorteth 1. Pet. 1.13 § Sect. 5 Lastly The certainty of faith proued by the examples of beleeuers that we may be most certaine of this certainty of faith we will adde to these testimonies some examples of beleeuers mentioned in Gods word And first let vs consider the faith of Abraham which was not wauering and doubtfull but most certaine and assured for aboue hope he beleeued vnder hope and hee was not weake in faith neither did hee doubt of the promise of God through vnbeleefe Rom. 4.18 19 20 21 22 23. but was strengthened in the faith and gaue glory vnto God being fully assured that hee which had promised was able to performe it and therefore it was imputed vnto him for righteousnesse as the Apostle setteth it downe Rom. 4.18 19 20 21 22. Now Abraham was not onely a bare beleeuer but the father of the faithfull neither was his faith propounded vnto vs as a wonder to admire at but as an example for all his sonnes to imitate And therefore it is said vers 23. That this is not written for him onely that his faith was imputed to him for righteousnesse 24. But also for vs to whom it shall be imputed for righteousnesse which beleeue in him who hath raised vp Iesus our Lord from the dead But it may be obiected that Abraham is not said here to beleeue thus certainely his owne election or saluation but that he should haue a sonne and become a father of many nations I answere though this were the next and immediat obiect of his faith yet this was not the chiefe and principall but the promise of blessednesse and happinesse which was made to him and all the nations of the earth in his seede Christ For Abraham could not bee iustified by beleeuing that he should haue a sonne but by beleeuing in the Messias which should come out of his loynes by whose righteousnesse and obedience he should be saued And therefore the Apostle Gal. 3.16 doth appropriate that promise made vnto Abraham Gal. 3.16 Gen. 22.18 Gen. 22.18 In thy seede shall all the nations of the earth bee blessed vnto the promised seede Iesus Christ Looke also vpon the prophet Dauid and you shall see that though his faith was often shaken with doubting yet in it selfe it remayned certaine like a tree shaken with the windes which is not ouerthrowne but taketh more firme and deepe roote Psalm 23.4 Psalm 23.4 Though I walke through the valley of the shadow of death I will feare no euill for thou art with mee So Psalm 27.1 Psalm 27.1 The Lord is my light and my saluation whom shall I feare The Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraide Neither had he onely this assurance in himselfe but sheweth that it is also the state of all the faithfull Psal 125.1 They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion Psalm 125.1 which cannot be remoued but remaineth for euer So Iob in the middest of his afflictions sheweth his certaine assurance and faith saying Iob. 13.15 Iob. 13.15 and 19.25 26. Loe though hee slay mee yet will I trust in him And chap. 19.25 I am sure that my redeemer liueth and he shall stand the last on the earth 26. And though after this skinne wormes destroy this body yet shall I see God in my flesh c. And Paul speaking not onely of his owne assurance of Gods loue and euerlasting life but of all the faithfull saith that he is perswaded that nothing in the world should be able to separate vs from Gods loue in Christ Rom. 8.38 Rom. 8.38 § Sect. 6 And thus haue I shewed that faith is a certaine assurance of Gods loue and fauour in Christ That faith particularly perswadeth vs of our election Now I will also proue that it particularly perswadeth vs of our owne election and life euerlasting For first such a faith is begot now in our hearts by the Preaching of the word as was begot in the hearts of men by our Sauiour Christ himselfe for as there is but one God so there is but one true and iustifying faith Ephes 4.5 Ephes 4.5 but by that faith they were particularly perswaded of the remission of their sinnes and consequently of their iustification and saluation as appeareth Luke 7.42.50 where our Sauiour saith thus to the woman Luk. 7.48.50 Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee thy faith hath saued thee goe in peace So Matth. 9.2 he saith to the sicke of the Paulsie Be of good comfort Matth. 9.2 thy sinnes are forgiuen thee And therefore the faith which is now begot in vs by the Preaching of the word doth also particularly perswade vs of the remission of our sinnes and eternall saluation For as our Sauiour Christ by his owne absolute authoritie did remit the sinnes of those that did beleeue so he hath left this authoritie to his ministers not absolutely by their owne power to remit sinnes which the man of sinne doth chalenge vnto himselfe but to declare and pronounce their sinnes forgiuen who truly beleeue in the sonne of God and repent them of their sinnes the which their sentence is ratified in Heauen according to that Matth. 16.19 Matth. 16.19 I will giue vnto thee the keyes of the kingdome of Heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt binde in earth shall be bound in Heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt loose in earth shall be loosed in Heauen which authoritie is not giuen to Peter alone and his successors as the Papists dreame but as Peter answered not onely for himselfe but also in the behalfe of all the rest so he receiueth this power both for himselfe and for all the Apostles yea for all Gods true Ministers the vndoubted successors of the Apostles as our Sauiour expoundeth himselfe Iohn 20.23 where hee giueth this authoritie to all the Apostles saying Whose sinnes so euer yee remit they are remitted vnto them Ioh. 20.23 and whose sinnes so euer yee retaine they are retained So that the Ministers of Gods word by the Preaching thereof may assure men particularly of the remission of their sinnes for when he maketh this generall proposition whosoeuer beleeueth and repenteth him of his