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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 5 › Section 4
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First, ignorance opens a door for sin to enter.
First, ignorance opens a doore for sinne to enter.
Secondly, as ignorance lets sin in, so it locks it up in the soul, and the soul in it.
Secondly, as ignorance lets sin in, so it locks it up in the soule, and the soule in it.
Thirdly, as it locks it up, so it shuts all means of help out.
Thirdly, as it locks it up, so it shuts all meanes of help out.
First, Ignorance opens the door for Satan to enter in with his troops of lusts; where the watch is blind, the City is soon taken: an ignorant man sins, and like drunken Lot, he knows not when the tempter comes, nor when he goes: he is like a man that walks in his sleep, knows not where he is, nor what he does. Father, forgive them, (said Christ) they know not what they do. The Apostle,