A85783:742
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.
CHAP. XII. Showeth what the Prize is, which believers wrestle against these Principalities Powers, and Spiritual wickednesses for. In High Places.
CHAP. XII. Sheweth what the Prize is, which believers wrestle against these Principalities Powers, and Spiritual wickednesses for. In High Places.
SECT. I.
These words contain the last Branch in the description of our grand enemy, which have in them some ambiguity, the Adjective being only expressed in the Original; [Greek or Hebrew], that is, in heavenlies; the phrase being defective, our Translators read it in high or heavenly places, as if the Apostle intended to set out the advantage of place, which this our enemy, by being above us hath of us Indeed this way most Interpreters go, yet some both ancient and modern read the words not in heavenly places, but in heavenly things, interpreting the Apostles mind to set out the matter about which, or prize for which we wrestle with Principalities and Powers, to be heavenly things. [Greek or Hebrew], (saith Oecumenius) is as much as if the Apostle had said, [Greek or Hebrew]: We wrestle not for small and trivial things, but for ⟨p. 307⟩yea, for heaven it self, and our Adoption, as he goes on. The same way Chrysostom carries it, in coelestibus, id est, pro coelestibus Dei. And after him Musculus, and other modern Writers. The Reasons which are given for this Interpretation are weighty.
THese words contain the last Branch in the description of our grand enemy, which have in them some ambiguity, the Adjective being only exprest in the Original; , that is, in heavenlies; the phrase being defective, our Translatours read it in high or heavenly places, as if the Apostle intended to set out the advantage of place, which this our enemy, by being above us hath of us Indeed this way most Interpreters go, yet some both ancient and modern reade the words not in heavenly places, but in heavenly things, interpreting the Apostles mind to set out the matter about which, or prize for which we wrestle with Principalities and Powers, to be heavenly things. , (saith Oecumenius) is as much as if the Apostle had said, : We wrestle not for small and trivial things, but for