Page images
PDF
EPUB

THE

CHRISTIAN

IN

COMPLETE ARMOUR.

G. BRIMMER, Printer, Strand Lane, London.

THE

CHRISTIAN

IN COMPLETE ARMOUR:

OR, A TREATISE ON

The Saints' War with the Devil;

WHEREIN A DISCOVERY IS MADE

OF THE POLICY, POWER, WICKEDNESS, AND STRATAGEMS

MADE USE OF BY

THAT ENEMY OF GOD AND HIS PEOPLE;

A MAGAZINE OPENED,

FROM WHENCE

THE CHRISTIAN IS FURNISHED WITH SPIRITUAL ARMS
FOR THE BATTLE,

ASSISTED IN BUCKLING ON HIS ARMOUR,

AND TAUGHT THE USE OF HIS WEAPONS;

TOGETHER WITH

THE HAPPY ISSUE OF THE WHOLE WAR.

BY WILLIAM GURNALL, A. M.

FORMERLY OF LAVENHAM, SUFFOLK.

VOL. III.

LONDON: PUBLISHED BY

L. B. SEELEY, 169, FLEET STREET.

1821.

(RECAP) 5855 420 2

V. 3

CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS

IN VOL. III.

VERSE 16. Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall
be able to quench the fiery darts of the wicked.

CHAP.

1. The explication of the words in a four-fold enquiry...
2. Sheweth the pre-eminence of faith above other graces,
in four particulars

FAGE

1

16

3. Sheweth unbelief to have the precedency among sins,
as faith hath among graces....

35

4. Some arguments to make us serious in the trial of our
faith, with directions taken from the manner of the
Spirit's working faith......

5. Where our faith is put upon trial by its obedience, with
some particulars faith's obedience is stamped with..
6. Two properties of faith; it is prayerful, and uniform in
its acting..

38

48

.. 51

....

7. An exhortation to all in a state of unbelief, to endeavour
for faith, with one direction toward the attaining of it 64
8. Contains a second direction for the obtaining faith.... 69
9. Contains three directions more towards the obtaining
faith.....

75

10. An exhortation to believers, above all to look to their
faith, with some directions for the preserving it.... 83
11. Sheweth it is the duty of a Christian to own the grace
of God in him, and not deny it; with the resolution
of some scruples, with which weak saints dispute
against the truth of their own faith

101

12. The saint's enemy described, with his warlike provision,
fiery darts, and what they are..

13. The fiery nature of Satan's enticing temptations, with
faith's power to quench them

109

.. 116

14. How faith quencheth the lusts of the flesh, lusts of the
eye, and pride of life....

. 120

15. Sheweth the difference between faith's conquest over
the world, by quenching the fiery darts shot from it,
and that victory, which some of the better heathens
attained to; as also a trial of our faith propounded, by
this power to quench Satan's enticing temptations,

VOL. III.

more or less

a

129

78741

« PreviousContinue »