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7166
i,
Ephefans,
Chap.6.
V
E
R.IO,
I
Yfe
z
.
2.
evidences,
till
Tome
flaw be
found,
arc not perufed
:
fo our
weapons,
till God mutter
us
with fome calamities,
arc
not
ufed.
When
I fee
thefe rutty halberts, calievers
,
muskets hanging
up
in
the time
of
peace,!
may
fee
how
it
is
with our
foules.
The
graces
of
God
are
not
kept
fhining, we doe
not
gird
them
daily
to
us
as
we
ought
:
therefore
when we fhould
ufe
them
we !hall finde
them out
of
kilture at
the
leaf!.
Agaioe,many flothfull
fouldiers for
cafe
put
on fome,and leave
off-other
fome: though
they
looke to the maine, yet they care
not
for
the
lighter wounds; their eyes,tongues,
Bares
are
fhot through,
as Da-
vid
in Yriahs
matter
had not
his
eyes fenced.
Again,
itlets us
fee
how
well
a
multitude
of
the
faithful!,
a
virgin
betrothed to
Chrift,
may be compared to
an
army
(for terrour)
with
banners.
Is it
nota
fearefull thing
for
an
enemy
to
fee an
army
all clad
with glittering armour from the
crowneof
the head to the feet r
fo
is
it
for
thefe fpirits
to
fee
their
foules
fo
armed.
The
!aft
thing to be
marked
in
the duty,
is
the kinde
of
armour
[of
God,]
which word
noteth
both
the
maker
and
metall
of
it;
teaching
us,
that the
weapons where-
with
we refift
the
devil!
mutt be fpirituall.
Our
weapons
(
faith
the
Apoftle) arc
notcarnall, but
fpirituall,
a
Cor,
so.
S.
There it
no
armour
ofproofe able
to
refill
him, which
God
himfelfe doth
not
forge,
and
is
not,
fpirituall
:
for the ftrength
of
braffe and
ftone
is
nothing
to him
;
that
of
the Leviathan
may be applied
to
him,
lob
41.
Secondly,
fuch
mutt the armour be to
refit
,
as
the
affaultis
which
is
made againft
a
thing
:
now the
devill
doth
not come
againft
us
with
fwords, but with
fpirituall fuggeftions
to withdraw us;
labouring
to
withdraw
us
from
righteoufnefTe
&
fellowfhip
with God,to
unrighte-
oufneffe and the creature,leaving the creator.
Wherefore
we
mutt not
fence
our
felves
againft
the
affaults
of
Satan by any humane meanes,
by
any
thing
which thewifdome
of
man can
fuggeft:but
as
David,en-
countring with
Goliah,laid afide
Saufs
weaponsand furniture,and went
againft him
in
the name
of
the Lord
:
fo
we mutt fay,
Not
armed with
our own wifdome,ftrength, or
helps
of
the creature,do we
feek to
put
to
flight the
power
of
darknefs,but
in
Gods armor
we make refiftance.
Secondly,
it
doth
convince many
of
notable folly,
who
will
march
againft the
devil!
with armour
flefhly
and devilifh;
as
the Papifts,who
in
proceffionhave banners upon poles,
who
on Palme- Sunday carry
palme-
boughs, who
put truft on erodes, crucifixes, holy
water,
&c.
for,
not
knodving
the power
of
godlineffe, they think with
flefhly ce-
remoniesto chafeaway the
fpirituall
powers
of
darknefTe.
Againe, many troubled with tentations
of
blafphemy, or
felf
mur-
der, they
will
to
phyfick;as if
byletting
of
blood or vomit, they
could
purge
out the devil!; others, when the
evill fpirit
doth
annoy
them,
they
make refiftance,
but
as
Saul, call
for
mufick, this or
that
compa-
ny,
and
employthemfelves
more bufily,
that
one
naile
may drive out
another;
in
a
word,
fo
refitting
that
evil!
one
,
troubling themfelves,
that the
make themfelves
twofold more the
children
of
the Devill.
Fourthly there
are
force
who
when they
are
fo
troubled,
will not
flick