The Christian in Complete Armour

Use 2 Secondly, bless God, O ye Saints, who upon the former trial can say, you are translated into the Kingdom of Christ, and so delivered from the tyranny of this usurper: There are few but have some one gaudy day in a year which they solemnize; some keep their birth-day, others their marriage; some their manumission from a cruel service, others their deliverance from some imminent danger; here is a mercy where all these meet. You may call it, as Adam did his wife, Chavah, the mother of all the living; every mercy riseth up and calls this blessed; this is thy birth-day, thou wert before, but beganst to live, when Christ ⟨p. 192⟩began to live in thee, the father of the Prodigal dated his sons life from his return; This my son was dead, and is alive. It is It is thy marriage-day; I have married you to one husband, even Christ Jesus, said Paul to the Corinthians. Perhaps thou hast enjoyed this thy husbands sweet company many a day, and had a numerous off-spring of Joys and comforts by thy fellowship with him, the thought of which cannot but endear him to thee, and make the day of thy espousals delightful to thy memory; 'Tis thy manumission, then were the Indentures cancelled, wherein thou wert bound to sin and Satan; when the Son made thee free, thou becamest free indeed: Thou canst not say thou wast borne free, for thy father was a slave, nor that thou boughtest thy freedom with a sum; By grace ye are saved. Heaven is settled on thee in the promise, and thou not at charge so much as for the writings drawing. All is done at Christ his cost, with whom God indented, and to whom he gave the promise of eternal life before the world began, as a free estate to settle upon every believing soul in the day they should come to Christ, and receive him for their Prince and Saviour; so that from the hour thou didst come under Christs shadow, all the sweet fruit that grows on this tree of life is thine; with Christ all that both worlds have falls to thee: All is yours, because you are Christs. O Christian, look upon thy self now, and bless thy God to see what a change there is made in thy state, since that black and dismal time, when thou wert slave to the Prince of darkness; how couldest thou like thy old Scullions work again? or think of returning to thy house of bondage? now thou knowest the privileges of Christs Kingdoms.

Ʋse 2 Secondly, blesse God, O ye Saints, who upon the former trial can say, you are translated into the Kingdome of Christ, and so delivered from the tyranny of this usurper: There are few but have some one gaudy day in a year which they solemnize; some keep their birth-day, others their marriage; some their manumission from a cruel service, others their deliverance from some imminent danger; here is a mercy where all these meet. You may call it, as Adam did his wife, Chavah, the mother of all the living; every mercy riseth up and calls this blessed; this is thy birth-day, thou wert before, but beganst to live, when Christ