...temptations to which we are exposed. — If Thou art for us, who can be against us? — Thou canst arm us with the sword of the Spirit, and the shield of faith, and with these make us to prove more than conquerors through Him that hath loved us. O strengthen us with...

...progress. There would be no armies of Infidelity to attack if the only weapons used by Christians were " the sword of the Spirit and the shield of Faith and the helmet of Salvation." — Infidelity must be a cold unsocial thing to every man's feelings, for it is adapted to no man's...

...overflowings of vice and demoralization that deface our land, and especially our metropolis ! that, armed with the sword of the Spirit, and the shield of faith, and the helmet of salvation, we may go boldly forth to war with the world, and sin, and the fiends of darkness, lifting up in the...

...everlasting hills will be her sentinels, and the rugged rocks her palisados, because their Maker is her ally. The sword of the Spirit, and the shield of faith, and the breastplate of righteousness are not shadows. Let us draw from the soil we tread upon, and from the...

...everlasting hills will be her sentinels, and the rugged rocks her palisados, because their Maker is her ally. The sword of the Spirit, and the shield of faith, and the breastplate of righteousness, are not shadows. Let us draw from the soil we tread upon, and from the...

...you are a wiser man than the writer, it will find you something to do. Some you must stand and fight with the sword of the Spirit and the shield of faith ; and some you must flee from and run away to conquer, like Joseph, or, as the apostle says, " flee youthful...

...forwarding the Lord's cause in the earth in accordance with his will ! Before an army thus furnished with the " sword of the Spirit," and " the shield of faith," and the " breastplate of righteousness, "§ how soon would abuses fall and prejudices fade away ! how soon...

...did not know, — even the Captain of their salvation, the Lord of hosts ; and they carried with them the sword of the Spirit, and the shield of faith, and the banner over them was love. And this banner of love was always with them, and the shield of faith never...

...again with the yoke of bondage."' Steadfast in freedom, and in the freedom which Christ gives. Not wavering. Not driven to and fro by every wind of doctrine....freedom-loving age, so much need to consider and obey. was the bondage from which we are delivered? It was the bondage of rituals and forms and ceremonies;...

...wrestled. Sin struggled within, Satan battled without. Troubles many pressed heavily. But they took the sword of the Spirit, and the shield of faith, and the helmet of salvation, and they overcame. They have finished their course. The last tear has been wiped away, and now they...