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A85783	The Christian in compleat armour. Or, A treatise of the saints war against the Devil, wherein a discovery is made of that grand enemy of God and his people, in his policies, power, seat of his empire, wickednesse, and chiefe designe he hath against the saints. A magazin open'd: from whence the Christian is furnished with spiritual armes for the battel, help't on with his armour, and taught the use of his weapon, together with the happy issue of the whole warre. The first part. / By William Gurnall, Minister of the Gospel in Lavenham. Imprimatur, Edmund Calamy.	Gurnall, William, 1617-1679.	1655 (1655)	Wing G2251; Thomason E824_1; ESTC R207679	343,381	430

of the world John 14. Princes have their thrones where they sit in state Satan hath his Rev. 2.13 Thou dwellest where Satan hath his throne and that such a one as no earthly Prince may compare few Kings are enthroned in the hearts of their subjects they rule their bodies and command their purses but how oft in a day are they pull'd out of their thrones by the wishes of their discontented subjects But Satan hath the heart of all his subjects Princes have their homage and peculiar honour done to them Satan is served upon the knee of his subjects the wicked are said to worship the devil Rev. 13.4 No Prince expects such worship as he no lesse then religious worship will serve him 2 Chron. 11.15 Jeroboam there is said to ordain Priests for devils and therefore he is call'd not only the Prince but the god of this world because he hath the worship of a god given him Princes such as are absolute have a Legislative Power nay their own will is their law as at this day in Turkey where their Laws are writ in no other Tables then in the proud Sultans breast thus Satan gives law to the poor sinner who is bound and must obey though the Law be writ with his own blood and the creature hath nothing but damnation for fulfilling the devils lust 't is call'd a Law of sinne Rom. 8.2 because it comes with authority Princes have their Ministers of State whom they employ for the safety and enlargement of their Territories So Satan his 2 Cor. 11.15 who propagates his cursed designes therefore we reade of doctrine of devils Princes have their Arcana Imperii which none knowes but a few Favourites in whom they confide thus the devil hath his mysteries of iniquity and depths of Satan we reade of which all his subjects know not of Rev. 2.24 these are imparted to a few Favourites such as Elymas whom Paul calls full of all subtilty and childe of the devil such whose consciences are so debauched that they scruple not the most horrid sins these are his white boyes I have read of a people in America that love meat best when 't is rotten and stinks The devil is of their diet the more corrupt and rotten the creature is in sinne the better he pleaseth his tooth some are more the children of the devil then others Christ had his beloved disciple and Satan those that lie in his very bosome and know what is in his heart In a word Princes have their Vectigalia their tribute and custome so Satan his Indeed he doth not so much share with the sinner in all but is owner of all he hath so that the devil is the Merchant and the sinner but the broker to trade for him who at last puts all his gaines into the devils purse time strength parts yea conscience and all spent to keep him in his throne SECT II. Quest But how comes Satan to this Principality Answ Not lawfully though he can shew a faire claim As First he obtained it by Conquest as he won his crown so he weares it by power and policy But conquest is a crack't title A thief is not the honester because able to force the traveller to deliver his purse and a thief on the throne is no better then a private one on the road or Pyrate in a Pinnace as he boldly told Alexander Neither doth that prove good with processe of time which was evil at first Satan indeed hath kept possession long but a thief will be so as long as he keeps his stollen goods He stole the heart of Adam from God at first and doth no better to this day Christs Conquest is good because the ground of the war righteous to recover what was his own which Satan cannot say of the meanest creature 'T is my own Secondly Satan may lay claim to his Principality by Election 'T is true he came in by a wile but now he is a Prince elect by the unanimous voice of corrupt nature Ye are of your father the devil saith Christ and his lusts ye will do But this also hath a flaw in it for man by law of Creation is Gods subject and cannot give away Gods right by sin he loseth his right in God as a Protectour but God loseth not his right as a Soveraign Sin disabled man to keep Gods Law but it doth not enfranchise or dis-oblige him that he need not keep it Thirdly Satan may claim a deed of gift from God himself as he was bold to do to Christ himself upon this ground perswading him to worship him as the Prince of the world Luke 4.5 6. He shewed unto him all the Kingdomes of the world saying All this will I give thee for that is delivered unto me and to whomsoever I will I give it Where there was a truth though he spake more then the truth as he cannot speak truth but to gain credit to some lie at the end of it God indeed hath delivered in a sense this world to him but not in his sense to do what he will with it nor by any approbatory act given him a Pattent to vouch him his vice-Roy not Satan by the grace of God but by the permission of God Prince of the world Quest But why doth God permit this Apostate-creature to exercise such a Principality over the world Answ First as a righteous act of vengeance on Man for revolting from the sweet Government of his rightful Lord and Maker 'T is the way that God punisheth rebellion Because ye would not serve me with gladnesse in the abundance of all things therefore ye shall serve your enemies in hunger c. Satan is a King given in Gods wrath Chams curse is mans punishment a Servant of servants The devil is Gods slave man the devils Sin hath set the devil on the creatures back and now he hurries him without mercy as he did the swine till he be choak't with flames if mercy interpose not Secondly God permits this his Principality in order to the glorifying of his Name in the recovery of his Elect from the power of this great Potentate What a glorious Name will God have when he hath finished this war wherein at first he found all possessed by this enemy and not a man of all the sons of Adam to offer himself as a Voluntier in this service till made willing by the day of his Power this this will gain God a Name above every name not only of creatures but of those by which himself was known to his creature The workmanship of heaven and earth gave him the Name of Creatour Providence of Preserver but this of Saviour wherein he doth both the former preserve his creature which else had been lost and create a new creature I mean the Babe of Grace which through God shall be able to beat the devil out of the field who was able to drive Adam though created in his full stature out of Paradise and may not all the

choice notions and excellent truthes Arrius himself and other dangerous instruments of Satan were too wise to stuffe their discourses with nothing but heterodoxe matter precious truths dropt from them with which they sprinkled their corrupt principles yet with such Art as should not easily be discerned This as one observs our Saviour warns his disciples of when he bids them beware of the leaven of the Pharisees that is of their errours But why leaven for the secret mixture of it with the wholesom bread you do not make your bread all of leaven none would then eate it but crumble a little into a whole batch which sowers all thus Christ doth tell the disciples that the Pharisees among many truths mixe their errours and therefore it behoves them to beware lest with the truth the errour goes down also Again leaven is very like the dough of the same grain with it only differs in age and sourenesse thus Christ intimates the resemblance of their errours to the truth scraped as it were out of the Scriptures but sowered with their own false glosses This indeed makes it easie for Christs sheep to be infected with the scab of errour because that weed which breeds the rot is so like the grasse that nourisheth them Thirdly their subtilty appears in holding forth such principles as are indulgent to the flesh This brings in whole shoales of silly soules into their net the heart of man loves of life to shape a Religion according to its own humour and is easie to believe that to be a truth which favours its own inclination Now there are three lusts that Satans instruments labour to gratifie in their doctrine Carnal Reason Pride and steshly Liberty First Carnal reason this is the great idol which the more intelligent part of the world worship making it the very standard of their faith and from this bitter root have sprung those Arrian and Socinian heresies And truly he that will go no further then reason will carry him may hold out in the plain way of the Moral Law but when he comes to the depths of the Gospel must either go back or be content that faith should help reason over Secondly another lust that Satan cockers is pride Man naturally would be a god to himself though for clambering so high he got his fall and whatever doctrine nourisheth a good opinion of man in his own eye this is acceptable to him and this hath spawned another fry of dangerous errours The Pelagian and semi-Pelagian which set nature upon its own legs and perswade man he can go alone to Christ or at least with a little external help of an hand to lead or argument to excite without any creating work in the soule O we cannot conceive how glib such stuffe goes down If one Workman should tell you that your house is rotten and must be pull'd down and all new materials prepared and another should say no such matter such a beam is good and such a sparre may stand a little cost will serve the turne it were no wonder that you should listen to him that would put you to least cost and trouble the faithful servants of Christ tell sinners from the Word that man in his natural state is corrupt and rotten that nothing of the old frame will serve and there must needs be all new but in comes an Arminian and blows up the sinners pride and tells him he is not so weak or wicked as the other represents him if thou wilt thou mayest repent and beleeve or at least by exerting thy natural abilities oblige God to superadde what thou hast not This is the Workman that will please proud man best Thirdly Satan by his instruments nourisheth that desire of fleshly liberty which is in man by nature who is a son of Belial without yoke and if he must wear any that will please best which hath the softest lining and pincheth the flesh least and therefore when the sincere teachers of the Word will not abate of the strictnesse of the command but presse sincere obedience to it then come Satans instruments and say these are hard task-masters who will not allow one play-day in a yeare to the Christian but tie him to continual duty we 'll shew you an easier way to heaven Come saith the Papist confesse but once a year to the Priest pay him well for his paines and be an obedient son of the Church and we 'll dispense with all the rest Come saith the Familist the Gospel-Charter allows more liberty then these legal Preachers tell you of they bid you repent and believe when Christ hath done all these to your hand What have you left to do but to nourish the flesh something sure is in it that Impostors finde such quick return for their ware while Truth hangs upon the log and is it not this that they are content to afford heaven cheaper to their disciples then Christ will to his He that sells cheapest shall have most customers though at last best will be best cheap Truth with self-denial a better penny-worth then errour with all its flesh-pleasing Thirdly Satan makes choice of such as have a great name for holinesse none to a live bird to draw other birds into the net But is it possible that such should do this work for the devil yes such is the policy of Satan and the frailty of the best that the most holy men have been his instruments to seduce others Abraham he tempts his wife to lie Say thou art my Sister The old Prophet leads the man of God out of his way 1 Kings 13. the holiness of the man and the reverence of his age 't is like gave authority to his counsel O how should this make you watchful whose long travel and great progresse in the wayes of God have gained you a name of eminency in the Church what you say do or hold because you are file-leading men and others look more on you then their way Fourthly Satan chooseth such as by relation or affection have deep interest in the persons he would gain Some will kisse the childe for the Nurses sake and like the Present for the hand that brings it 'T is like David would not have received that from Nabal which he took from Abigail and thanks her Satan sent the apple by Eves hand to Adam Delilah doth more with Samson then all the Philistines bands Jobs wife brings him the poison Curse God and die Some think Satan spared her life when he slew his children and servants though she was also within his Commission as the most likely instrument by reason of her relation and his affection to lead him into temptation Satan employes Peter a disciple to tempt Christ at another time his friends and kinsfolk Some Martyrs have confest the hardest work they met withal was to overcome the prayers and tears of their friends and relations Paul himself could not get off this snare without heart-breaking What mean ye to weep and to

is strange sinners should no more tremble at this who should they see but their swine or a beast bewitch't and possest of the devil run headlong into the sea would cry out as half undone and is not one foul more worth then all these what a plague is it to have Satan possesse thy heart and spirit hurrying thee in the fury of thy lusts to perdition O poor man what a sad change hast thou made Thou who wouldest not sit under the meek and peaceful Government of God thy rightful Lord art paid for thy rebellion against him in the cruelty of this Tyrant who writes all his Lawes in the blood of his subjects and why will you sit any longer O sinners under the shadow of this Bramble from whom you can expect nothing but eternal fire to come at last and devoure you Behold Christ is in the field sent of God to recover his right and your liberty His royal Standard is pitch't in the Gospel and Proclamation made that if any poor sinners weary of the devils Government and heavy laden with the miserable chaines of his spiritual bondage so as these irons of his sins enter into his very soule to afflict it with the senfe of them shall thus come and repair to Christ he shall have protection from Gods justice the devils wrath and sins dominion In a word he shall have rest and that glorious Usually when a people have been ground with the oppression of some bloody Tyrant they are apt enough to long for a change and to listen to any overture that gives them hope of liberty though reached by the hand of a stranger who may prove as bad as the other yet bondage is so grievous that people desire to change as sick men their beds though they finde little ease thereby Why then should deliverance be unwelcome to you sinners Deliverance brought not by a stranger whom you need feare what his designe is upon you but your near Kinsman in blood who cannot mean you ill but he must first hate his own flesh and whoever did that To be sure not he who though he took part of our flesh that he might have the right of being our Redeemer yet would have no kindred with us in the sinfulnesse of our nature And 't is sin that makes us cruel yea to our own flesh What can you expect from him but pure mercy who is himself pure They are the mercies of the wicked which are cruel Believe it Sirs Christ counts it his honour that he is a King of a willing people and not of slaves He comes to make you free not to bring you into bondage to make you Kings not vassals None give Christ an evil word but those who never were his subjects Enquire but of those who have tried both Satans service and Christs they are best able to resolve you what they are You see when a soul comes over from Satans quarters unto Christ and has but once the experience of that sweetnesse which is in his service there is no getting him back to his old drudgery as they say of those who come out of the North which is cold and poor they like the warme South so well they seldome or never go back more What more dreadful to a gracious soul then to be delivered into the hands of Satan or fall under the power of his lusts It would choose rather to leap into a burning furnace then be commanded by them This is the great request a childe of God makes that he would rather whip him in his house then turne him out of it to become a prey to Satan O sinners did you know which you cannot till you come over to Christ and embrace him as your Lord Saviour what the priviledges of Christs servants are what gentle usage Saints have at Christs hands you would say those were the only happy men in the world which stand continually before him His lawes are writ not with his subjects blood as Satans are but with his own All his commands are acts of grace 't is a favour to be employed about them To you 't is given to believe yea to suffer Such an honour the Saints esteem it to do any thing he commands that they count God rewards them for one piece of service if he enables them for another This I had saith David because I kept thy Precepts Psal 119.56 what was the great reward he got see v. 55. I have remembred thy Name O Lord in the night and kept thy Law then followes This I had He got more strength and skill to keep the Law for the future by his obedience past and was he not well paid think you for his pains There 's fruit even in holinesse the Christian hath in hand which he eats while he is at work that may stay his stomack until the full reward comes which is eternal life Rom. 6.22 Jesus Christ is a Prince that loves to see his people thrive and grow rich under his Government This is he whom sinners are so afraid of that when he sets open their prison and bids them come forth they choose rather to bore their eares to the devils post then enjoy this blessed liberty It is no wonder that some of the Saints have indeed when tortured not accepted deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection But what a riddle is this that forlorne soules bound with the chaines of their lusts and the irresistible decree of God for their damnation if they believe not on the Lord Jesus should as they are driving to execution refuse deliverance This may set heaven and earth on wondring Surely dying in their sins they cannot hope for a better resurrection then they have a death I am afraid rather that they do not firmly believe they shall have any resurrection and then no wonder they make so light of Christs offer who think themselves safe when once earth't in this burrough of the grave But let sinners know 't is not the grave can hold them when the day of Assize comes and the Judge calls for the prisoners to the bar The grave was never intended to be a Sanctuary to desend sinners from the hand of justice but a close Prison to secure them against the day of trial that they may be forth-coming Then sinners shall be digg'd out of their burroughs and dragg'd out of their holes to answer their contempt of Christ and his grace O how will you be astonish't to see him become your Judge whom you now refuse to be your King to heare that Gospel witnesse against you for your damnation which at the same time shall acquit others for their salvation what think you to do sinners in that day wilt thou cry and shream for mercy at Christs hands Alas when the sentence is past thy face will immediately be covered condemned prisoners are not allowed to speak teares then are unprofitable when no place left for repentance either in Christs

labour for the saving knowledge of God in Christ whom to know is life eternal Are you young Enquire after God betimes while your parts are fresh and memory strong before the throng of worldly cares divert you or lusts of youth debauch you The feet of those lusts which have buried millions of others in perdition stand ready to carry you the same way if preventing grace come not and deliver you out of their hands by seasoning your mindes with the knowledge of God This morning-draught may prevent thy being infected with the ill savours thou mayest receive from the corrupt examples of others Nay how long thy stay may be in the world thou knowest not see whether thou canst not finde graves of thy length in the burial place and if thou shouldest die ignorant of God and his Law what would then become of thee The small brush and the old logs young sinners and those that are withered with age meet and burn together Or if thou shouldest stay a while longer here may be because thou wilt not learn now God will not teach thee then Or if thou shouldest in thy old age get acquaintance with God yet 't is sad to be sowing thy seed when thou shouldest be reaping thy sheaves learning to know God when thou mightest be comforting thy self from the old acquaintance thou hast enjoyed with him Are you old and ignorant Alas poor creatures your life in the socket and this candle of the Lord not set up and lighted in your understanding your body bowing to the dust and nature tolling the passing bell as it were and you like one going into the dark know not whither death will lead you or leave you 'T is like the infirmities of age make you wish your bones were even laid at rest in the grave but if you should dye in this condition your poor soules would even wish they were here again with their old burdens on their back aches and diseases of old age are grievous but damned soules would thank God if he would blesse them with such a heaven as to lie in these paines to escape the torments of the other O bethink you before you go hence the lesse time you have the more diligence you must use to gain knowledge we need not be earnest one would think to bid the poor prisoner learne his book that cannot reade when he knows he shall be hang'd if he read not his neck-verse 'T is not indeed the bare knowing the truths of the Gospel saves but the grosse ignorance of them to be sure will damn soules Are you poor It is not your poverty is your sin or misery but your ignorance where the true treasure lies Were you Gods poor rich in knowledge and faith you were happy Eccles 4.13 Better is a poor and wise childe then a foolish King who will no more be admonish't yea so happy that did the Princes of the world understand themselves aright they would wish themselves in your clothes how ragged soever they are rather then be in their own robes there are better making for you in heaven which you shall put on when theirs shall be pull'd off to their shame It will not then trouble you that you were while in the world poor but it will torment them that they were so rich and great and so poore to God and beggarly in their soules Are you rich Labour for the knowledge of the most high Solomon had more of the worlds treasure then a thousand of you have and yet we finde him hard at prayer tugging with God for knowledge 1 Chron. 1.10 All these outward enjoyments are but vaginae bonorum as afflictions are vaginae malorum I am afraid many men think themselves priviledged by their worldly greatnesse from this duty as if God were bound to save them because rich Alas Sirs there are not so many of you like to come there I must confesse it would make one tremble to think what a small number those among the great ones that shall be saved are summed up into Not many great not many rich Why so few saved Because so few have saving knowledge O the Atheisme the ignorance the sottish barbarisme that is to be found even in those that the world applaud and even worship because of their lands and estates who yet are not able to give any account of their faith A poore leather-coat Christian will shame and catechize a hundred of them If heaven were to be purchased with house and lands then these would carry it away from the poore Disciples of Jesus Christ they have their hundreds and thousands ly by them for a purchase alwayes but this money is not currant in heavens exchange This is life eternall to know thee and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent Quest But how may an ignorant soule attaine to knowledge Answ First Be deeply affected with the ignorance Some are blind as La●dicea and know it not Rev. 3.17 As Ignorance blinds the minde so pride is a blind before their ignorance that they know it not These have such a high opinion of themselves that they take it ill any should suspect them as such these of all men are most out of the way to knowledge they are too good to learne of man as they think and too bad to be taught of God The gate into Christs Schoole is low and these cannot stoop The Master himselfe is so humble and lowly that he will not teach a proud Scholar Therefore first become a foole in thy owne eye A wiser man then thy selfe hath confessed as much Prov. 30.2 3. I am more brutish then any man and have not the understanding of a man I neither learned wisdome nor have the knowledge of the Holy When thou art come to thy selfe to owne and blush at the brutish ignorance of thy minde thou art fit to be admitted into Christs School If they be ashamed then shew them the patterne of the house Ezek. 43.10 Secondly be faithful with that little knowledge thou hast Art thou convinced this is a sinne and that is a duty Follow the light close you know not what this little may grow to We use to set up our children with a little stock at first and as they use it so we adde The Kingdome of God comes of small beginnings God complains of Israel they were brutish in their knowledge Jer. 10.14 he doth not say brutish in their ignorance had they sinned because they did not know better this would have excused à tanto but they did that which was brutish and unreasonable as their worshiping graven images notwithstanding they knew to the contrary That man shall not excel in knowledge who prostitutes it to sinne Job 36.12 If they obey not they shall perish by the sword and shall die without knowledge A candle pent up close in a dark lanthorn swailes out apace and so doth light shut up in the conscience and not suffered to come forth in the conversation Those Heathens that are charged

all his glory I know nothing would have a more powerful yea universal operation upon a Saints spirit then the frequent and spiritual consideration of that blisseful state in heaven which shall at last crown all their sad conflicts here on earth None like this sword to cut the very sinews of temptation and behead those lusts which defie and out-brave whole troops of other Arguments It is almost impossible to sin with lively thoughts and hopes of that glory 'T is when the thoughts of heaven are long out of the Christians sight and he knows not what is become of his hopes to that glorious place that he begins to set up some idol as Israel the Calfe in Moses his absence which he may dance before But let heaven come in sight and the Christians heart will be well-warm'd with the thoughts of it and you may as soon perswade a King to throw his royal Diademe into a sink and wallow with his robes in a kennel as a Saint to sin with the expectation of heavens glory Sin is a devils work not a Saints who is a Peer of heaven and waits every houre for the Writ that shall call him to stand with Angels and glorified Saints before the throne of God This would cheer the Christians heart and confirme him when the fight is hottest and the bullets flie thickest from men and devils to think 't is heaven all this is for where it 's worth having a place though we go through fire and water to it 'T is before the Lord said David to scoffing Michal that chose me before thy father and all his house therefore I will play before the Lord and I will yet be more vile then thus 2 Sam. 6.21 Thus Christian wouldest thou throw off the vipers of reproaches which from the fire of the wickeds malice flie upon thee 'T is for God that I pray hear mortifie my lust deny my self of my carnal sports profits and pleasures that God who hath passed by Kings and Princes to choose me a poor wretch to stand before him in glory therefore I will be yet more vile then thus O Sirs were there not another world to enjoy God in yet should we not while we have our being serve our Maker The heavens and the earth obey his Law that are capable of no reward for doing his Will Quench hell burn heaven said a holy man yet I will love and feare my God How much more when everlasting armes of mercy stand ready stretch't to carry you assoon as the fight is over into the blisseful presence of God You have servants of your own so ingenuous and observant that can follow your work hard abroad in all weathers and may they but when they come home weary and hungry at night obtain a kinde look from you and some tender care over them they are very thankful Yea saith one to shame the sluggish Christian how many hundred miles will the poor Spaniel run after his Master in a journey who gets nothing but a few crumbs or a bone from his Masters trencher In a word which is more the devils slaves what will they not do and venture at his command who hath not so much to give them as you to your dog not a crust not a drop of water to cool their tongue and shall not the joy of heaven which is set before the Christian into which he shall assuredly enter make him run his race endure a short scuffle of temptation and affliction yea sure and make him reckon also that these are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in him FINIS BOOKS lately printed by RALPH SMITH Master Dicksons Exposition on the whole Book of Psalmes in three Books Second Edition Mr. Hutcheson on all the twelve Small Prophets in three Volumns Mr. Cottons Exposition on Ecclesiastes Dr. Spurstowe of the Nature Preciousnesse and Usefulnesse of Gospel-Promises Mr. Rutherford on the Covenant of Grace are to be sold by Ralph Smith Also Mr. Bailies Appendix to the Hebrew Grammer AN ALPHABETICAL Table A. Ability ABilities of minde and body not to be gloried in 202 Accuser Satan an Accuser 116 How to know his accusations from the rebukes of Gods Spirit 117 Affliction Affliction a season Satan chooseth to tempt in 95 The day of affliction an evil day 351 How affliction is evil and how not 352 Afflictions discover the naughtinesse of the heart 354 Wicked men the worse for afflictions 356 Almighty Almightinesse given as the finest hold-fast for faith in straits 24 No easy matter to oppose Almighty Power against sense and reason 25 God very tender of the honour of this Attribute 27 28 A five-fold engagement on Gods Almighty Power for his Saints help 29 30 31 Answer How we put a stop to Gods Answers of prayer how not 47 48 Apostasie The Apostasie of false Christians must not discourage weake Saints 8 Lamentation for the Apostasie of these times 376 The root of final Apostasie is the want of a through change upon the heart 380 Armour What meant by Armour 53 The Saints Armour must be divine in institution 61 The slighty Armour used by Papists and carnal Protestants 62 Our armour must be of divine constitution 67 How to try our armour whether of God or not 69 The necessity of armour for every faculty and sense and why 73 Assurance Assurance lost by declining 336 Attribute Those Attributes of God which comfort Saints speak terrour to the wicked 38 B. Boldnesse The wickeds boldnesse and Saints cowardise alike uncomely 10 C. Christ What a Prince Christ is to his subjects 219 Covenant-relation with Christ See Covenant-relation Christian course Vprightnesse in our Christian course a comfort in the evil day 370 Church A cordial to our fainting faith for the afflicted Church 153 154 Comfort The Saints comfort ebbs or flows as he believes or questions his interest in the power of God 35 Conflict A soules conflict with sin an evidence of grace 169 Conquer Conquest Saints when most tempted cannot be conquered 138 The Saints Conquest at last makes amends for all 390 Conscience Sins against rebukes of conscience very dangerous 365 Contention The contention of Saint with Saint 179 The evil of it 180 Conversation The vanity of pretending to grace without a holy conversation discovered 89 Converts The advantage Satan hath on new Converts 94 Conversion Not necessary to know the time of Conversion 131 Covenant Gods Covenant sure 31 Covenant-relation with Christ How to get into Covenant-relation with Christ 367 Courage Courage necessary in a Saint 4 The want of this one cause of Apostasie 9 Corruption How to improve Gods power when corruption is too strong for us 4O Cunning. The folly of thinking to be too cunning for the devil and who do 112 Curse The curse that lies on the devil and his cause 139 This the cause why he prevailes not over Saints ib. D. Darknesse Sin called darknesse and why 213 Day See evil Death The houre of death