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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 9 › Section 3
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Secondly, thou wrongest thy brother, as thou sinnest against the law of love, which obligeth thee to rejoice in his good as thy own, yea, to prefer him in honour before thy self. Thou canst not love and envy the same person; envy is as contrary to love, as the hectic feverish fire in the body is to the kindly ⟨p. 284⟩heat of nature. Charity envieth not, 1 Cor. 13. How can it when it lives where it loves? and when thou ceasest to love, thou beginnest to hate and kill him, and doest not thou tremble to be found a murderer at last?
Secondly, thou wrongest thy brother, as thou sinnest against the law of love, which obligeth thee to rejoyce in his good as thy owne, yea, to prefer him in honour before thy self. Thou canst not love and envy the same person; envy is as contrary to love, as the hectical feavourish fire in the body is to the kindly ⟨p. 284⟩heat of nature. Charity envieth not, 1 Cor. 13. How can it when it lives where it loves? and when thou ceasest to love, thou beginnest to hate and kill him, and doest not thou tremble to be found a murderer at last?
Thirdly, thou consultest worst of all for thy self. God is out of thy reach, what thou spittest against heaven, thou art sure to have fall on thy own face at last, and thy brother whom thou enviest God stands bound to defend him against thy envy, because he is maligned for what he hath of God in him. Thus did God plead Josephs cause against his envious brethren, and Davids against wicked Saul. Thy self only hast real hurt.
Thirdly, thou consultest worst of all for thy self. God is out of thy reach, what thou spittest against heaven, thou art sure to have fall on thy own face at last, and thy brother whom thou enviest God stands bound to defend him against thy envy, because he is maligned for what he hath of God in him. Thus did God plead Josephs cause against his envious brethren, and Davids against wicked Saul. Thy selfe only hast real hurt.