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Lastly, by this conflict the Lord strengthneth and increaseth all his graces in vs: for as by exercise the strength of the body is preserued and augmented, and in short time decaieth through idlenesse and sloth; so the gifts of Gods spirit, faith, affiance, hope, patience and the rest languish in vs, if they bee not exercised with temptations.
John Downame — The Christian Warfare (TCP A20752), Chap. II: 'Why God suffereth his servants to be exercised in the spirituall conflict of tentations,' near pp. 8–9
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