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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

THE CHRISTIAN WARFARE WHEREIN IS FIRST GENERALLY SHEWED THE MALICE POWER AND politike stratagems of the spirituall enemies 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 TEMPTATIons 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 Preacher of Gods word Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the assaults of the Diuell Ephes 6.11 AT LONDON printed by FELIX KYNGSTON for Cuthbert Burby and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Swan 1604. TO THE GODLY ZEALOVS AND SINCERE PROFESSORS OF GODS TRVE RELIGION SIR IOHN SCOT Sir THOMAS SMITH and their Ladies Maister ROBERT CHAMBERLAINE Esquire and Mistris ANNE CHAMBERLAINE his wife his welbeloued and most respected friends I. D. wisheth the fruition of all the true comforts of this life and eternall happinesse in the life to come MAnifold right Worshipfull and most daungerous are the temptations and assaults of our spirituall enemies whereby they labour to hinder the saluation of Gods elect and to increase the greatnesse of their hellish dominions by withdrawing if it were possible Gods seruants from their subiection and alleageance and making them their slaues and perpetuall vassals To this end they take indefatigable paines going continually about seeking whom they may deuour sometimes like roaring Lions compelling by violent force and sometimes like old Serpents alluring and deceiuing with treacherous policies Neither doe they rest in the time of our rest but waking and sleeping they set vpon vs one while inticing vs to swallow the poyson of sinne with the sugred baites of worldly vanities and another while driuing vs into their snares of perdition with the sharpe pricking goades of miserie and affliction Before vs they set carnall pleasures deceiuing riches and vaine honours to allure vs to come into the broad way that leadeth to destruction and behind vs they hold the three-stringed whip of losse shame and punishment to keepe vs from going backe and to hasten vs with winged speede to run forward in this hellish iourney Neither do they greatly care what path we chuse in this common way of perdition whether the spatious way of securitie and presumption or the strait path of horror and desperation whether the toyling way of vnsatiable couetousnesse or the soft faire way of bewitching pleasures whether the open way of worldlinesse and atheisme or through the hidden thickets of hypocrisie and dissimulation in a word they regard not in what way we walke so we goe forward in the waies of sinne for though they seeme diuers and contrarie one to another yet they haue all the same end meeting together in hell and destruction And howsoeuer they cannot with all their malice power and policies attaine vnto their desires by bringing Gods elect and faithfull ones to perdition and endlesse miserie because God their heauenly father who hath taken vpon him their protection frustrateth all their subtill policies with his all-seeing wifedome and withstandeth all their might with his almightie power yet doe they exceedingly with their assaults and temptations foyle vexe and trouble them by working in some forgetfulnesse of God and of themselues securitie and carelesse retchlesnesse and turmoyling others with horrible feares desperat doubting and bitter agonies Whereby it commeth to passe that the one sort securely goe on in sinne forgetting the end of their creation redemption and holy vocation vnto which God hath called them vntill with Salomon they haue found in the end of their worldly delights nothing but vanitie and vexation of spirit and the other are so affrighted astonished and continually tormented with doubtings feares and the continuall assaults of their spirituall enemies that they goe mourning all the day long pining away in griefe and anguish of mind till at last they grow wearie of their liues thinking their soules an intollerable burthen to their bodies and their bodies to the earth The consideration of which lamentable and too too miserable effects as it shall moue all christians to stand vpon their guard and to arme themselues with the spirituall armour that they may not be ouercome of their temptations and fall into these great mischiefes so should it moue Gods faithfull ministers whose dutie it is not onely themselues to walke in the waies of righteousnesse but also as spirituall guides to leade others with them in discharge of their conscience before God and in christian commiseration and compassion towards their brethren to vse all good meanes both by speaking and writing whereby they may bee preserued and freed from these snares which their spirituall enemies doe lay to intrap them by beating downe with the cannon-shot of Gods threatnings the high forts of their proud presumption and rouzing them out of the deepe slumber of retchlesse securitie as also by raising vp and comforting those that mourne in Syon stooping yea lying groueling vnder the heauie burthen of their sinnes The which howsoeuer it is performed by many in respect of their seuerall charges committed to them and some also haue briefely touched some poynts in writing which concerned the comforting and raising vp of their priuate friends yet not any that I know of haue in our language largely and generally handled these controuersies and spirituall conflicts betweene the christian and the enemies of his saluation for the common good of the whole Church And therefore hauing with Elihu long waited to see if those who were more auncient better experienced and more richly furnished with Gods gifts and graces than my selfe would vndertake this worke which is to God most acceptable and to his saints and children so profitable and necessarie at length after others long silence I resolued to speake and no longer to conceale such true comforts as God hath reuealed vnto me to the end that hereby I might releeue and comfort those who are poore in spirit and humbled in the sight of sinne or at least by offering willingly to this vse my small mite I might giue an occasion vnto others better able to vnlocke and open their rich treasuries that they may bestow vpon their poore brethren their great talents and gifts of better valew The which my labors as I did not rashly vndertake them so I haue not suddenly finished them for almost three yeeres since I purposed to take this worke in hand which I haue now by Gods assistance finished but at the first I confesse I intended not that it should come in to publike view but onely as others before me propounded as the end of my labours the comforting