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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878. Excerpt: ... SERMON X. BPHESIANS VI. 11. Put on the whole armour of GOD, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil." jN various discourses I have been setting before you the Christian war; they are now brought to conclusion. We have been considering the leaders of this most important of wars, Christ and Satan; the field of action, the world; the soldiers on one part and the other, men; the manner of the fight; with what weapons Christ invades Satan's dominions, and those with which Satan endeavours to defend them; and also how Satan assaults the followers of Jesus, and Jesus arms them for defence. The last of these circumstances hath been more largely insisted on, as being most effectual to afford you a more distinct view of the reality of this war, and the part every one of you is bearing in it, as youare ranged and drawn up under the one leader or the other. Christ's methods of attacking Satan's dominion in the persons of sinners, and Satan's order of fight to repulse his enemy, and keep his subjects in his hellish peace and power, as well as Satan's wiles on Christ's kingdom in the persons of believers, with their Leader's disposition of them to defend them against his devices, have been distinctly laid out. I thought it not advisable to shut up abruptly so great and interesting a subject, and therefore determined to conclude the whole with some suitable remarks and applications. These shall be confined to three general heads. 1. The reality of the war. 2. The present state of it. 3. The importance thereof. 1. I would engage you to mark the reality of this war. And surely I have not been representing an imaginary scene all this while? That there are sinners in the world is evident, as it is also that there are saints. The rise and progress of sin ...