A85783:821
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.
Thirdly, the frame of thy heart in worldly employments.
First, in reference to sin, and that is threefold.
First, when thou art not so wakeful to discover the encroachings of sin upon thee as formerly; at one time we find Davids heart smote him, when he but rent the skirt of Sauls garment: at another time when his eye glanced on Bathsheba, he takes no such notice of the snare Satan had him in, and so is led from one sin to another, which plainly showed that grace in him was ⟨p. 342⟩[…] ⟨p. 343⟩[…] ⟨p. 340⟩heavy-eyed, and his heart not in so holy a frame as it had been. If an enemy comes up to the gates, and the sentinel not so much as give an alarm to the City of his approach, it shows he is off his guard, either fallen asleep, or worse: If grace were awake, and thy conscience had not contracted some hardness, it would do its office.
First, when thou art not so wakeful to discover the encroachings of sin upon thee as formerly; at one time we finde Davids heart smote him, when he but rent the skirt of Sauls garment: at another time when his eye glanced on Bathsheba, he takes no such notice of the snare Satan had him in, and so is led from one sin to another, which plainly shewed that grace in him was ⟨p. 342⟩