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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 6 › Section 2
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SECT. II.
Secondly, they are wicked spirits; wicked in the abstract, as in the Text, and called by way of eminency in sin, The wicked one, Mat. 13.19. As God is called the holy one, because none holy as the Lord. So, the devil the wicked one, because he is a none such in sin. In a few particulars let us endeavour to take the height of the devils sin, and the rather that we may judge of the degrees of sins, and sinners among the sons of men, the ⟨p. 254⟩nearer God in holiness, the more holy; the liker the devil, the more wicked.
Secondly, they are wicked spirits; wicked in the abstract, as in the Text, and call'd by way of eminency in sin, The wicked one, Mat. 13.19. As God is called the holy one, because none holy as the Lord. So, the devil the wicked one, because he is a none such in sinne. In a few particulars let us endeavour to take the height of the devils sinne, and the rather that we may judge of the degrees of sins, and sinners among the sons of men, the ⟨p. 254⟩neerer God in holinesse, the more holy; the liker the devil, the more wicked.