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Irk'
O
f
the
fpirituall
armour.
4
But
as
we
are
not
fecurely
to
rufh
into
the
field
oftempta-
That
we
mul
Lion
again[
our
fpirituall enemies,
fo
we
are
not when
they
not
cowardly
found the alarum
to battaile,
and alfault
vs,
cowardlie to
flee in the
a.
ca(+
downe our weapons and
to
runne away
:
for the Apo
ritual
con
fit
..
í11e
wouldnot
take
away from
vs
true valour and Chriflian
fortitude,
but
carnali
fecuritie and retchlefneífe; and
there-
fore
though
our
enemies
be
mightie, and
the time
of
temp-
Cation
full
oftrouble,yet
he
biddeth
vs
not
to
call
off
our ar-
mour and
to
runne away,whollie
dcfpairing
ofvi&orie,
but
he exhorteth
vs
for this
caufe,
to take vnto
vs
the whole
aro
mour
ofGod,
that
we
may bee able
to
refit+
in
the
euill
day,
and hauing
finiíhed
all
things may fland
fa(l;.thatis,hauing
put
our
enemies
to flight
and obtained the vietorie, we may
like
conquerors
fland
laffin the
field,
as
it
were
triumphant-
ly infultingouer them
=;
wherebyhee
intimateth
thus much,
that
if
wee
will take
vnto
vs
the whole armour
ofGod,how
vveake
foeuer wee
bee
in
our
felues,
yet
{halt wee
be enabled
to
relia
our fpirituall
enemies
in the
euill day;
andnot
onely
fo,but
alfo
obtaine vietorieand triumph ouer them.
And
therefore
het
willeth= vs
not
bee difinaied,
neither
4,sea.
4.
with
our
enemies
power, nor ourowne trouble,
but
to
fland
That
euery
ewe
to
it,faying,verf.14. Stand
there
fore:
by which word
he
inti
mull
abide
in
matethvnto
vs
diuers
duties
:
fir{
+,as
in the
campe euery
man
his
votationi
hath.his.place
appointed him,
andhis
proper
colours
wider
which
he-is
to
keepe him;
fo al
Chriflian
fouldiers haue
their
f+ations,that is,
their
vocations
whereunto they
are called
of
God,
within the
limits
whereof
they
are
to containe
them-
felues
:and
thefe are
fir[
their
generali calling
whereby they
are
intertained
into
the Church
militant, which
is
Gods
campe
or artny,where they
are
to
fight vnder the flandard
of
their Captaine
Chril+
:
and fecondlie their
fpeciall
callings,
whereby there
is
appointed to euerymember
of
the
militant
Church,a certaine flauding,and particular and proper duties
and
funéhons
which
he
is
to
execute,
as it-is
in
the
armies
of
earthlie
princes.
Firft
therefore
we
mull containe our
felues
within
our generali vocation and
flation,
that
is,
wee
mull.'
keepe
vs
in
Gods
armic
and
campe,
the Church militant
:
for
asxhofe.
ílragling
fouldiers
who
depart
from_
the
arinie
and
range