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Classic Christian work

The Christians in Complete Armor

by William Gurnall

Modern English translation available

A landmark of Puritan spiritual theology, this exhaustive treatise on Ephesians 6 equips believers for the war against Satan, sin, and the world. Gurnall methodically exposes the devil's subtlety and power, then furnishes the Christian with every piece of the whole armor of God — its nature, purpose, and practical use. Marked by pastoral warmth and theological precision, it remains one of the most thorough treatments of spiritual warfare in Christian literature, prized for its counsel on maintaining courage, faith, and perseverance under trial.
Chapters
43
Word count
166,037
Type
Treatise
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Table of contents

  1. 01 To My Dearly Beloved Friends and Neighbors, the Inhabitants of Lavenham 2,416 words
  2. 02 A Treatise of the Whole Armor of God 1,124 words
  3. 03 Chapter 1. Of Christian Courage and Resolution, Therefore Necessary, and How Obtained 3,947 words
  4. 04 Chapter 2. Of the Saints' Strength, Where It Lies, and Therefore Laid Up in God 3,887 words
  5. 05 Chapter 3. Of Acting Our Faith on the Almighty Power of God 2,296 words
  6. 06 Chapter 4. Of Acting Our Faith on the Almighty Power of God, as Engaged for Our Help 6,121 words
  7. 07 Chapter 5. In Which Is Answered a Grand Objection That Some Disconsolate Souls May Raise Against the Former Discourse 4,229 words
  8. 08 Chapter 1. Showing the Christless and Graceless Soul to Be the Soul Without Armor, and in It His Misery 2,963 words
  9. 09 Chapter 2. Showing That the Armor We Use Against Satan Must Be Divine in the Institution, Such Only as God Appoints 2,394 words
  10. 10 Chapter 3. Showing That the Armor We Use for Our Defense Against Satan Must Not Only Be Divine by Institution, but Constitution Also 2,345 words
  11. 11 Chapter 4. Of the Entireness of Our Furniture — It Must Be the Whole Armor of God 3,526 words
  12. 12 Chapter 5. Of the Use of Our Spiritual Armor, or the Exercise of Grace 5,003 words
  13. 13 Chapter 1. Of Satan's Subtlety to Choose the Most Advantageous Seasons for Tempting 1,858 words
  14. 14 Chapter 2. Satan's Subtlety in Managing His Temptations, Where Several Stratagems Used by Him to Deceive the Christian Are Laid Down 2,340 words
  15. 15 Chapter 3. Of Satan's Subtlety in Choosing Instruments Fit for His Turn to Carry On His Tempting Design 2,525 words
  16. 16 Chapter 4. In Which This Point of Satan's Subtlety, as a Tempter to Sin, Is Briefly Applied 1,800 words
  17. 17 Chapter 5. In Which Is Showed 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 4,558 words
  18. 18 Chapter 6. A Brief Application of the Second Branch of the Point — Of Satan's Subtlety as a Troubler and Accuser for Sin 910 words
  19. 19 Chapter 7. Containing Some Directions Tending to Entrench and Fortify the Christian Against the Assaults and Wiles of the Devil as a Troubler of the Soul's Peace 3,878 words
  20. 20 Chapter 8. Of the Saints' Victory Over Their Subtle Enemy, and From Where It Is That Creatures So Overmatched Should Be Able to Stand Against Satan's Wiles 1,443 words
  21. 21 Chapter 9. An Account Is Given How the All-Wise God Does Outwit the Devil in His Tempting of Saints to Sin, Wherein Are Laid Down the Ends Satan Propounds and How He Is Prevented in Them All 3,959 words
  22. 22 Chapter 10. A Brief Application of the Point in Two Branches 1,850 words
  23. 23 Chapter 1. Showing the Christian's Life Here to Be a Continual Wrestling with Sin and Satan, and How the True Wrestlers Should Manage Their Combat 6,076 words
  24. 24 Chapter 2. In Which Is Showed What Is Meant by Flesh and Blood, and How the Christian Wrestles Against the Same 4,265 words
  25. 25 Chapter 3. In Which Is Shown What a Principality Satan Has, How He Came to Be Such a Prince, and How We May Know Whether We Are Under Him 6,053 words
  26. 26 Chapter 4. Of the Great Power Satan Has Not Only Over the Elementary and Sensitive Part of the World, but the Intellectual Also — the Souls of Men 5,196 words
  27. 27 Chapter 5. Of the Time When, the Place Where, and the Subjects Whom Satan Rules 18,168 words
  28. 28 Chapter 6. Of the Spirituality of the Devil's Nature and Their Extreme Wickedness 3,913 words
  29. 29 Chapter 7. Of Satan's Plot to Defile the Christian's Spirit with Heart-Sins 2,990 words
  30. 30 Chapter 8. How Satan Labors to Corrupt the Christian's Mind with Error 2,605 words
  31. 31 Chapter 9. Of Pride of Gifts and How Satan Tempts the Christian Thereto 5,046 words
  32. 32 Chapter 10. Of Pride of Grace 5,795 words
  33. 33 Chapter 11. The Third Kind of Spiritual Pride — Pride of Privileges 2,943 words
  34. 34 Chapter 12. Showing What the Prize Is Which Believers Wrestle for Against Principalities, Powers, and Spiritual Wickedness in High Places 6,013 words
  35. 35 Chapter 13. An Exhortation to the Pursuit of Heaven and Heavenly Things 3,871 words
  36. 36 Chapter 1. The Reason Why the Apostle Renews the Same Exhortation, and What Truths Ministers Are Often to Preach to Their People 1,487 words
  37. 37 Chapter 2. The Best of Saints Subject to Decline in Their Graces, and Why We Are to Endeavor a Recovery of Decays in Grace 1,398 words
  38. 38 Chapter 3. A Cautionary Direction from What We May Not, and from What We May Judge Our Graces to Be in a Declination 2,190 words
  39. 39 Chapter 4. A Word of Counsel for the Recovery of Declining Grace 2,294 words
  40. 40 Chapter 5. The Words Opened, and What Is Meant by the Evil Day 1,223 words
  41. 41 Chapter 6. Showing That the Day of Affliction Is Evil and in What Respects, Also Unavoidable, and Why to Be Prepared For 4,486 words
  42. 42 Chapter 7. The Application of the Point 3,926 words
  43. 43 Chapter 8. The Second Argument with Which the Exhortation Is Pressed, Drawn from the Assured Victory Which Shall Crown the Soul's Conflict in This Armor 10,727 words

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