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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
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. III. A cautionary direction from what we may not, as also from what we may judge our graces to be in a declination.
Quest. First of the first, How may a Christian judge whether grace be declining in him or no?
Quest. FIrst of the first, How may a Christian judge whether grace be declining in him or no?
Answ. First, I shall resolve this negatively, and show by what he is not to judge his grace to decline.
Answ. First, I shall resolve this negatively, and shew by what he is not to judge his grace to decline.
Secondly, positively, by what he may certainly conclude a decay of grace.
First, negatively, and that in several particulars.