A85783:602
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Against spiritual wickedness.
Against spiritual wickednesse.
These words are the fourth branch in the description, Spiritual wickednesses, and our contest or combat with them as such expressed by the adversative particle [Against] in the Greek, [Greek or Hebrew] word for word; Against the Spirituals of wickedness, which is, say some, against wicked spirits; that is, true, but not all. I conceive with many Interpreters, not only the spiritual nature of the devil, and the wickedness thereof to be intended, but also, yea, chiefly the nature and kind of those sins, which these wicked spirits do most usually and vigorously provoke the Saints unto, and they are the spirituals of wickedness, not those gross fleshly sins, which the herd of beastly sinners like swine wallow in; but sin spiritualized, and this, because it is not [Greek or Hebrew], but [Greek or Hebrew], not spirits, but spirituals. The words present us with these three doctrinal Conclusions.
THese words are the fourth branch in the deseription, Spiritual wickednesses, and our contest or combate with them as such exprest by the adversative particle [Against] in the Greek, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 word for word; Against the Spirituals of wickednesse, which is, say some, against wicked spirits; that is, true, but not all. I conceive with many Interpreters, not only the spiritual nature of the devil, and the wickednesse thereof to be intended, but also, yea, chiefly the nature and kinde of those sins, which these wicked spirits do most usually and vigourously provoke the Saints unto, and they are the spirituals of wickednesse, not those grosse fleshly sinnes, which the herd of beastly sinners like swine wallow in; but sin spirituallized, and this, because it is not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, not spirits, but spirituals. The words present us with these three doctrinal Conclusions.