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Of
the
brew
-plate
o
f
righteoufnes.
S
3
often
through
infirmitie, yet
let the heart
alwaies
be armed
with the
breafi-plate
of
righteoufüeffe,
that
is,
with
an ear-
nefi delire
and holy indeuour
of
feruing
God
;
and
fo
fhall
Satan
neuer mortally
wound
vs.
But on the other
fide,
if
we
once
lay
afide
the
breafi -plate
ofrighteoufnef
%;
not
fo
much
as
endeuouring
to
ferue
the
`lord
in holinefle
of
life,
but
imbrace
finne
with
full
confent
of
will,
we
íhall
lay our breafis open
and naked to
all Sa-
tans
thruíis
, yea and
as
it
were
put
fwords
in his
hands
wherewith
he may
wound
and
murther
vs
:
forvntill
we
dif-
arme our
felues,
and put
weapons
into the
hands of-Satan
'your
fumes,
he
cannot
hurt
vs;
as we
may fee in
the
ex-
ample
of
our
firíi parents,
who
whilefi
they continued
in
their
righteoufneífe
and
integritie,
Satan
could
not
offer
them
any violence
by
affault
and force,
and
therefore
he
al-
lured them:to
entertaine
a
treacherous
parley,
wherein
ha-
iling
inticed them
to
difarme themfelues
of
this breafi
-plate
of
righteoufnefle,
by
wilfull tranfgreflîng
Gods
çomman-
dement,he
inflicted
on them deadlywounds, pearcing them
thorow
to
the
very
heart,
and
fo
like
loab
whilei
he
feemed
lovingly
to
imbrace
them,
hee
did
móí1
treacheroufly
flab
them.
The
conliideration
whereof
fhould
make
vs
repell
molt
carefully
all
Satans
tetñptations, whereby
he
inticeth
vs
to
finne;
but
efpecially
let
vs
neuer be allured
to put
off
the
'breaf plate
of
righteoufneffe, and then
though
Satan
wound our
foules
with
finne;
yet
his
wounds will
'not
be
nortall
fo
long
as
we doe_not
fall
into
finne
with
full
con-
fent
of
will,
but
through
infirmitie;
in
the
meane
time
loa-
thing the
finne
which
we
commit,
and
delighting
our
felues
in
the
law
of
God,
in
refpea
of
the inner
man
;
for
though
we
fall.,
yet the
Lord
will
raife vs vp
by vnfained
repen
tance,
fo
that though
finne dwell in
vs
yet
'Mall
it
neuer
raigne in
vs.
1C
ita
A
r,
6,.Sec7.2.
That the
latte
ofthis
at
molar
is
mors
fetttt4
tious.