The Christian in Complete Armour

Overview

In a world where war is a persistent reality in media and in film, there is a larger, consequential war being waged everyday that is often neglected: the Spiritual war inside of us. Written in the English Puritan era but just as powerful and inspiring today, William Gurnall’s timeless epic The Christian in Complete Armour serves as a beautifully written and action-packed spiritual guidebook

A call to arms for Christians, Gurnall’s expounded sermons on Ephesians 6:10–20 are as practical as they are illuminating. With stunning prose and page-turning excitement, the battle for the soul and the descriptions of the God-given protections and weapons ascribed to the believer are detailed and explained. Gurnall’s masterpiece has been inspiring Christians since the 17th century, and has never been as applicable and urgently needed as the present day.

Key Features

• Detailed Table of Contents
• Original Introduction by the Author

Praise for the Print Edition

If I might read only one book beside the Bible, I would choose The Christian in Complete Armour.

—John Newton

Peerless and priceless; every line full of wisdom.

—C. H. Spurgeon

A beautiful feature in Gurnall's book is its richness in pithy, pointed, and epigrammatical sayings. You will often find in a line and a half some great truth, put so concisely, and yet so fully, that you really marvel how so much thought could be got into so few words.

—J. C. Ryle

Product Details

• Title: The Christian in Complete Armour
• Author: William Gurnall
• Publisher: T. Tegg
• Pages: 827

About William Gurnall

William Gurnall was born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk in 1617. Receiving his B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge, in 1644 he was made rector of Lavenham in Suffolk. Most known for his book The Christian in Complete Armor, Gurnall died in 1679, the year his book would be published in its sixth edition.

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

carefully revised and corrected by the

REV. JOHN CAMPBELL, D.D.

LONDON:

THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE;

r. griffin and co., glasgow; t. le mesurier, dublin; also, j. and s. a. tegg sydney and hobart town

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CONTENTS

‘finally, my brethren, be strong in the lord, and in the power of his might.’—Eph. 6:10

i. Of Christian courage and resolution, wherefore necessary, and how obtained

ii. Of the saints’ strength, where it lies, and wherefore laid up in God

iii. Of acting our faith on the almighty power of God

iv. Of acting our faith on the almighty power of God, as engaged for our help

v. Wherein is answered a grand objection, which some disconsolate souls may raise against the former discourse

‘put on the whole armour of god.’—Ver. 11

i. Sheweth that the Christless and graceless soul is a soul without armour, and therein his misery

ii. Sheweth that the Armour that we use against Satan, must be divine in the institution, such only as God appoints

iii. Sheweth that the armour we use for our defence against Satan must not only be divine by institution, but constitution also

iv. Of the entireness of our furniture; it must be the whole armour of God

v. Of the use of our spiritual armour, or the exercise of grace

‘that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.’—Ver. 11

i. Of Satan’s subtlety, to choose out the most advantageous seasons for tempting

ii. Satan’s subtlety in managing his temptations, where several stratagems used by him to deceive the Christian are laid down

iii. Of Satan’s subtlety in choosing instruments fit for his turn, to carry on his tempting design

iv. This point of Satan’s subtlety, as a tempter to sin, is briefly applied

v. Wherein is shewed the subtlety of Satan, as a troubler and an accuser for sin, where many of his wiles and policies to disquiet the saints’ spirits are discovered

vi. A brief application of the second branch of the point, viz., of Satan’s subtlety as a troubler and accuser for sin

vii. Containing some directions tending to entrench and fortify the Christian against the assaults and wiles of the Devil, as a troubler

viii. Of the saints’ victory over their subtle enemy, and whence it is that creatures so over-matched should be able to stand against Satan’s wiles

ix. An account is given, how the all-wise God doth out-wit the devil in his tempting of saints to sin, wherein are laid down the ends Satan propounds, and how he is prevented in all, with the gracious issue that God puts to these his temptations

x. A brief ...

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