ABRIDGED, METHODIZED, AND IMPROVED, BY THE REV. THOMAS JONES, OF CREATON, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. "AND THERE WAS WAR IN HEAVEN, MICHAEL AND HIS ANGELS FOUGHT AGAINST PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE : FLEET STREET, LONDON. MDCCCXXXVII. ADDRESS TO CHRISTIAN WARRIORS. SOLDIERS of Christ, be aware that you are highly advanced in God's creation, that you occupy an important station, that you have an arduous work allotted to you, and that you have neither time nor talent to throw away. For you are enlisted under the banner of Christ, you have entered the armies of the Most High, and have taken the oath of allegiance to the King of Sion, and bound yourselves by an oath, to fight the good fight of faith, against sin, Satan, the world and the flesh. What formidable enemies are these! You have to encounter all the powers of hell, and their name is Legion. Fight them you now must, for you have put on the armour, and taken the field to fight all the enemies of God and man. When you survey the enemies' camp, and see their strength, their number, their stratagems, and inveterate malice; and are then made to feel your own weakness and nothing |