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The Christian in Complete Armour
The Christian in complete armour. Or, A treatise of the saints war against the Devil, wherein a discovery is made of that grand enemy of God and his people, in his policies, power, seat of his empire, wickedness, and chief design he hath against the saints. A magazine opened: from whence the Christian is furnished with spiritual arms for the battle, helped on with his armour, and taught the use of his weapon, together with the happy issue of the whole war. The first part. / By William Gurnall, Minister of the Gospel in Lavenham. Imprimatur, Edmund Calamy.The Christian in compleat armour. Or, A treatise of the saints war against the Devil, wherein a discovery is made of that grand enemy of God and his people, in his policies, power, seat of his empire, wickednesse, and chiefe designe he hath against the saints. A magazin open'd: from whence the Christian is furnished with spiritual armes for the battel, help't on with his armour, and taught the use of his weapon, together with the happy issue of the whole warre. The first part. / By William Gurnall, Minister of the Gospel in Lavenham. Imprimatur, Edmund Calamy.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1655
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Thus will these give intelligence to Satan, and say, If thou wouldest surprise such a one, he is gone that way, you shall have him in the wood of worldly employments, over head and ears in the desires and cares of this life, see where another sits under such a bower, delighting himself in this child, or that gift, endowment of mind, or the like; lay but the lime-twig there, and you shall soon have him in it. Now Satan having this intelligence, lets him alone to act his part; he sure cannot be at a loss himself, when his scholars, (the Jesuits I mean) have such agility of mind, to wreath and cast themselves into any form becoming the persons they would seduce. Is ambition the lust the heart favours? O the pleasing projects that he will put such upon! how easily having first blown them up with vain hopes, doth he draw them into horrid sins? Thus Human, that he may have a monopoly of his Princes favour, is hurried into that bloody plot (fatal at last to himself) against the Jews. Is uncleanness the lust after which the creatures eye wanders? Now he'll be the Pander, to bring him and his Minion together. Thus he finding Amnon sick of this disease, sends Jonadah a deep-pated fellow, 1to put this fine device into his head of feigning himself sick whereby his Sister fell into his snare.
Thus will these give intelligence to Satan, and say, If thou wouldest surprize such a one, he is gone that way, you shall have him in the wood of worldly employments, over head and eares in the desires and cares of this life, see where another sits under such a bower, delighting himself in this childe, or that gift, endowment of mind, or the like; lay but the lime-twig there, and you shall soon have him in it. Now Satan having this intelligence, lets him alone to act his part; he sure cannot be at a losse himself, when his scholars, (the Jesuites I mean) have such agility of minde, to wreath and cast themselves into any forme becoming the persons they would seduce. Is ambition the lust the heart favours? O the pleasing projects that he will put such upon! how easily having first blown them up with vain hopes, doth he draw them into horrid sins? Thus Human, that he may have a monopoly of his Princes favour, is hurried into that bloody plot (fatal at last to himself) against the Jewes. Is uncleannesse the lust after which the creatures eye wanders? Now he'll be the Pander, to bring him and his Minion together. Thus he finding Amnon sick of this disease, sends Jonadah a deep-pated fellow,