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Ephefaans,
Chap.6.
V
E
R.IO.!
this day.
This
ie
a moft
ileffed
efface, to
lean
on
the Lord
, and
an
the
power
of
hú might
: many
are the
benefits
opt.
It
will feare
no
oppofi-
Iron.
For
what cannot
Gods almighty power
fubdue± Pfal. 27.
I.
2.
It
will not be difmaid
when
all
meanes
in
ordinary confiderati-
on
falle
us
:
he
faveth
by
few
,
yea
without any,
as
well
as
many.
Ram.4.
vibrabam
cared
not for the
deadneffe
of
his
body.
3. He
that
hash no
truft
in
himfelfe,
but
leaneth on
the power
of
God,
will, though he
fall
often,
ftill have
hope
:
for
he
that
knowes
he
hath no
ftrength, cannot wonder
if
when
God
leaved'
himhe doe'
fall
:
and
hee
that maketh Gods ftrength
his ftay ,
though
hee bee
never fo farre from a thing ,
yet
will not cart away hope
in
time to
obtaine.
Finally, he will delire
to
grieve
fluently
for
his
weakneffe, he will
fo !came
to
fee
there
is
no
ability
in
him, that he
will
further
leane his
faith on the power
of
God.
Pfal.60.i
t.
Give
us
help againft
trouble,
for
vaine
is
the help
of
man. Pfal.
69. 29. When
I
am
poore
and
in
heavincfîe,
thy
help O Lord
(hall (till
exalt
roe.What
ufe
the Pfalmift
maketh
of this, that
the
Ifraclites had
fought
unfuccesfully
as
left
of
God.
Laftly, this
is
all our fccurity,
that
it
is
not
the
ftrength
in
us,but the
power
of
Gods might, that
muff help
us
to falvation.
If
we had the
ftrength
of
our firft
Parents
, and were left
to
our felves, we
fhould
come fhort
of
happineffe
:
but this being
it
that doth
keepe us
(
Gods
ftrength
being
united to
by faith)
the
felfe fame
ftrong God
beingthe
author
and
finifherof our
faith,
Heh.
r3.
this puts
all
out
of
doubt.
3.
We
mutt
glórifie
the power
of
God
in
all
things
:
it
is
he
that
ftreng-
thenethus. Efayz5.1o.
He
worketh
all
our works for
us.
Pfal.to8.
13.
Through
him we
(hall
do
valiantly,
he
is
our
fhield,
towre,rock,
ftrength,
and
glory.
Now
followeth the
fecond part
of
fortifying,concerning the
furni-
ture we
areto
have; laid
downe
in generals
to the
14. verfe,
in
particu-
lar
to the
s
r.
Firft, he layeth downe the duty. Secondly,
he
doth,
as
a
faithful)
Herald,
againe repeate his
proclamation,
becaufe we
can-
not heare
on
this
fide
eafìly, but
would
fave our felves
peaceably,
without lookingafter warfare. In laying
downs
the
duty,
he
del
ive-
reth
in
the
beginning
of
this verfe,
the thing
to be done
:
Put
on
the
whole armour
of
God.
z.
The
end, that
you may be able
to
teat.
3.
The
reafon,
which hath
reference to
the duty
, and end ;
in
the
ra.
verfe.
Now
in
the thingto be
done,
three things
are
to be
marked.
t.
That
Chriftians
muff have
armour
that
is
compleat armour, to
co-
ver
them
from top
to
toe.
2.
That
they
muff not have
it
lying
by
them,
but mutt put
it
on.
3.
That
the Chriftian armour
is
for matter
and making,
of
God, that
is,
divine and (pirimall.
For
the
firft
,
there
ú
great
reafon
to
prove that
a
Chriftian
muff
have
armour.
For
he
hath
enemies
that would wound
him deadly otherwife.
It
is
with
us
as
with the
Ifraelities
in
Exodus
:
fo foone
as
he
tooke
them out
of
Egypt,
he
led them
thence armed ; becaufe
that
Pharaoh
he