10.  Further, the believer would eye Christ as a fountain of furniture, as a full and complete magazine, standing open, and ready for every one of his honest soldiers to run to for new supplies of what they want; so that whatever they find wanting in their Christian armour, they must run away to the open magazine, Christ’s fulness, that standeth ready for them, and by faith take and put on what they want and stand in need of in their warfare.  If their girdle of truth be slacked, loosed, or weakened, and they be meeting with temptations anent their hypocrisy, and Satan objecting to them their double dealing, of purpose to discourage them, and to make them faint and give over the fight; they must away to him who is the truth, that he may bind on that girdle better, and make their hearts more upright before God in all they do.  And if their breastplate of righteousness be weakened, and Satan there seem to get advantage, by casting up to them their unrighteous dealings towards God or men, they must flee to him, who only can help here, and beg pardon through his blood for their failings, and set to again afresh to the battle.  If their resolution, which is understood by the preparation of the gospel of peace, grow weak, it must be renewed in Christ’s armoury, and the feet of new be shod therewith.  If their shield of faith begin to fail them, away must they get to him who “is the Author and Finisher of faith,” Heb. xii. 2.  And if their helmet of hope begin to fail them, in this armoury alone can that be supplied.  And if their sword be blunted in their hand, or they unable to wield it aright, the Spirit of Jesus can only teach their hands to fight, and instruct them how to manage that useful weapon with advantage.  Thus must the believer “be strong in him, and in the power of his might,” Eph. vi. 10.  “He is their God that girdeth them with strength, and maketh their way perfect.  He maketh their feet like hind’s feet, and setteth them upon their high places.  He teacheth their hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by their arms.  He giveth them the shield of salvation.  His right hand upholdeth them.  He girdeth with strength unto the battle,” &c.  Psalm xviii. 32, &c.

11.  For the further strengthening of their hope, faith, and confidence, believers would eye Christ, as hanging on the cross, and overcoming by death, death, and him that hath the power of death, the devil; and so as meritoriously purchasing this redemption from the slavery of sin and Satan, and particularly from the slavery of that body of death, and of the law of sin and death; for the apostle tells us, Rom. viii. 2, “That the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus doth make us free from the law of sin and death,” and that because, as he saith further, ver. 3, 4, “what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us.”  So