Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

IS Regan! moving vt to fight againft the world. name: for as for the nature of the world,what it is, and the dangerous effeéls which it worketh,they know it not,much 'effe doe they with any care furnifh rhemfelues with fuch fpirituall weapons as might enable them to fight again(} it. Whereofit commeth to paffe that they are vanquifhed by the world at vnawares,and liue in fubieciion to this dange. rous enemie,and neuer fede the burthen of their bondage, becaufe it is fwecte and pleating to the flefh. CHAP. III. Reafons to moue vs to refill andfight againfl our enemie the world. §.Sel1. i. Nd thus haue I fhewed the dangerouf es ofthis God common.. enemie,both in refpeCt ofhis malice and power, deth vs to or- by the fira whereofis inferred the neceffitie of pole againfl the ° the fight; for fuch is hismalice that he will hear - avorldo ken vntot o peace,but ifwe will not ouercome him, he will furely overcome vs; by the other carnali fecuritie is taken away,and wee furred vp with all diligence to prepare our (clues againa the encounter; feeing wee are not to fight a. gaina a weake and contemptible enemie,butagainft apoli- tike and powerful' champion, with whom few haue corn- batted,but either they haue been fhamefuliyfoyled, or vr- terly ouerthrowne. But that we may the rather be incoura- ged to proclaimewarre againfc the world, with which we are too tooprone in our owne corrupt nature to bein league and amitie, let the reafons following induce vs. Fira,the Lord hath by fpeciali commandement inioyned vs to haue no amide orcorrefpondcncie with the world and worldly vanities,but to renounce and contemne it, both in our ac- tions,and alfo in our hearts and affe }ions, as being vnwor. thie both our labour and our loue. The former, Rom. I 2.2. 1;tom.r z.z. Fafhion not yourfelnes ltlze veto this world,but be ye chançed by the renewing' ofyourmindes. And elfcwhere he willeth vs, to vfe this world ac though wee vied it not,as being a falfe and treacherous friend, who will decciue and betray vs when we