The Christian in Complete Armour - Gurnall - XXI - Direction Fifth commenced

Required reading
The Christian in Complete Armour by William Gurnall (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read First General Part of Direction Fifth.

My summary

Today we begin to unpack the words: 'Having your loins girt about with truth.'

Firstly, Gurnall advises us to have truth of doctrine for the mind.

This is necessary because Satan:

(i) comes as a serpent in the persons of false teachers, and by them labours to put a cheat on us, and cozen us with error for truth;

(ii) comes as a lion in the persons of bloody persecutors, and labours to scare Christians from the truth with fire and faggot.

What grabbed me

I appreciated the comparison between the wrath of man and the wrath of God: 'Man's wrath, alas, when hottest, is but a temperate climate to the wrath of the living God. They who have felt both have testified as much. Man's wrath cannot hinder the access of God's love to the creature, which hath made the saints sing in the fire in spite of their enemies' teeth. But the creature under God's wrath, is like one shut up in a close oven—no crevice open to let any of the heat out, or any refreshing in to him.'

I know which wrath I fear more!

Next week's readingRead all Four Inquiries of Division First of Second General Part of Direction Fifth.

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