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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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CHAP. VII. Containing some Directions, tending to entrench and fortify the Christian against the assaults and wiles of the devil, as a Troubler of the souls Peace.
CHAP. VII. Containing some Directions, tending to entrench and fortifie the Christian against the assaults and wiles of the devil, as a Troubler of the soules Peace.
Quest. How shall I stand in a defensive posture (may the Christian say) against these wiles of Satan as a Troubler?
Quest. HOw shall I stand in a defensive posture (may the Christian say) against these wiles of Satan as a Troubler?
SECT. I.
1First, if thou wouldest be guarded from him as a Troubler, take heed of him as a seducer. The hast of Satan's hatchet, (with which he lies chopping at the root of the Christians comfort) is commonly made of the Christians wood: First, he tempts to sin, and then for it. Satan is but a creature, and cannot work without tools, he can indeed make much of a little, but not any thing of nothing (as we see in his assaulting of Christ, where he troubled himself to little purpose, because he came and found nothing in him.