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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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O if once our hearts were but filled with zeal for God, and compassion to our peoples souls, we would up and be doing, though we could but lay a brick a day, and God would be with us. May be you who find a people rude and sottishly ignorant, like stones in the quarry, and trees unfelled, shall not bring the work to such perfection in your days as you desire; yet as David did for Solomon, thou mayest by thy pains in teaching and instructing them, prepare materials for another who shall rear the Temple. Its very ordinary for one Minister to enter into the labours of another; to reap those by a work of Conversion, in whom a former Minister hath cast the seed of knowledge and conviction: And when God comes to reckon with his Workmen, the Plough-man and Sower shall have his penny, as well as the Harvest-man and Reaper. O its a blessed thing to be (as Job saith he was,) eyes to the blind, much more to blind souls; such are the Ministers. God himself calls Pastors after his own heart, that feed his people with knowledge and understanding, Jer. 3.15. But woe to those that are accessary to their peoples ignorance. Now a Minister may be accessary to the ignorance of his people,
O if once our hearts were but fill'd with zeal for God, and compassion to our peoples souls, we would up and be doing, though we could but lay a brick a day, and God would be with us. May be you who finde a people rude and sottishly ignorant, like stones in the quarry, and trees unfell'd, shall not bring the work to such perfection in your dayes as you desire; yet as David did for Solomon, thou mayest by thy paines in teaching and instructing them, prepare materials for another who shall rear the Temple. Its very ordinary for one Minister to enter into the labours of another; to reap those by a work of Conversion, in whom a former Minister hath cast the seed of knowledge and conviction: And when God comes to reckon with his Workmen, the Plough-man and Sower shall have his penny, as well as the Harvest-man and Reaper. O its a blessed thing to be (as Job saith he was,) eyes to the blinde, much more to blinde soules; such are the Ministers. God himself calls Pastours after his own heart, that feed his people with knowledge and understanding, Jer. 3.15. But wo to those that are accessary to their peoples ignorance. Now a Minister may be accessary to the ignorance of his people,