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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
A TREATISE Of the whole Armour Of God. › Introduction › Chapter 2 › Section 3
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Great Princes, who from baseness and beggary have ascended to Kingdoms and Empires, (to add to the joy of their present honour) have delighted to speak often of their base birth; to go and see the mean cottages where they were first entertained, and had their birth and breeding, and the like. And 'tis not unuseful for the Christian to look in at the grate, to see the smoky hole where once he lay, to view the chains wherewith he was laden, and so to compare Christs Court, & the devils prison; the felicity of the one, and the horror of the other together. But when we do our best to affect our hearts with this mercy by all the enhancing aggravations we can find out. Alas, how little a portion of it shall we know here? this is a ⟨p. 193⟩nimium excellens, which cannot be fully seen, unless it be by a glorified eye; how can it be fully known by us, where it cannot be fully enjoyed? thou art translated into the Kingdom of Christ, but thou art a great way from his Court. That is kept in heaven, and that the Christian knows, but as we far countries which we never saw, only by map, or some rarities that are sent us as a taste of what grows there in abundance.
Great Princes, who from basenesse and beggery have ascended to Kingdomes and Empires, (to adde to the joy of their present honour) have delighted to speak often of their base birth; to go and see the mean cottages where they were first entertained, and had their birth and breeding, and the like. And 'tis not unuseful for the Christian to look in at the grate, to see the smokie hole where once he lay, to view the chaines wherewith he was laden, and so to compare Christs Court, & the divels prison; the felicity of the one, and the horror of the other together. But when we do our best to affect our hearts with this mercy by all the inhancing aggravations we can find out. Alas, how little a portion of it shalwe know here? this is a ⟨p. 193⟩nimium excellens, which cannot be fully seen, unlesse it be by a glorified eye; how can it be fully known by us, where it cannot be fully enjoyed? thou art translated into the Kingdome of Christ, but thou art a great way from his Court. That is kept in heaven, and that the Christian knows, but as we far countreys which we never saw, only by map, or some rarities that are sent us as a taste of what grows there in abundance.