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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 7: The Application of the Point.
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where 'tis denounced against that sort of sinners, who please themselves with their Lords delaying his coming, that the Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of. Indeed God must go out of his ordinary road of dealing with sinners, if such scape a sudden ruin. One is bold to challenge any to show a President in Scripture of any that are branded for security, that some remarkable yea, sudden judgement did not surprise. Sodom, how soon after a Sun-shine morning did the heavens thicken, and bury them in a few hours, (by a storm of fire) in their own ashes? Careless Laish cut off before they almost think of it. Agag, when he saw the clouds of his fears break, and fair weather was in his countenance, they return immediately upon him, and shut him up in death; he is presently hewen in pieces. Amalek slaughtered by David before the triumph of their late victory was cold. Nebuchadnezzar strutting himself in his Palace with this bravado in his mouth, Is not this great Babylon that I have built? and before he can get the words out of his throat, there is another voice falling from heaven, saying, O King, to thee be it spoken, 1thy Kingdom is departed from thee: and the same hour it was fulfilled, and he sent to graze with the beasts. Dives blessing himself for many years, and within a few hours the pillow is plucked from under his head, and you hear no more of him, till out of hell he roar; yea, a whole world, (few persons excepted) ⟨p. 365⟩drowned, and they not know till the day the flood came, Mat. 24.29. and swept them all away: And who art thou, O man, that promisest thy self an exemption, when Kings, Cities, a whole world have been ruined after this sort?
where 'tis denounced against that sort of sinners, who please themselves with their Lords delaying his coming, that the Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an houre that he is not aware of. Indeed God must go out of his ordinary road of dealing with sinners, if such scape a sudden ruine. One is bold to challenge any to shew a President in Scripture of any that are branded for security, that some remarkable yea, sudden judgement did not surprise. Sodom, how soon after a Sun-shine morning did the heavens thicken, and bury them in a few houres, (by a storme of fire) in their own ashes? Carelesse Laish cut off before they almost think of it. Agag, when he saw the clouds of his fears break, and faire weather was in his countenance, they return immediately upon him, and shut him up in death; he is presently hewen in pieces. Amalek slaughtered by David before the triumph of their late victory was cold. Nebuchadnezzar strutting himself in his Palace with this bravado in his mouth, Is not this great Babylon that I have built? and before he can get the words out of his throat, there is another voice falling from heaven, saying, O King, to thee be it spoken,