08/03/2024
*Oppose Christ’s Enemies*
Show your love to Christ in your vigorous resistance and opposition to Christ’s enemies. There are three grand enemies of Christ that you are, by your baptism, engaged to fight against: namely, the devil, the flesh, and the world— which war both against Christ and against your souls. This trinity of adversaries agree in one, and combine together against His anointed, doing their utmost endeavor to break His bands, to untie His cords, and to unhinge His government. They would pluck the crown off of Christ’s head could they reach it, and the scepter out of His hand. They would divest Christ, if they could, of all His power here on earth, and confine Him to His territories in heaven.
But all their attempts in this kind have been and will be in vain: Christ has tried the strength of these enemies and has vanquished them — but still some life and power is left with them to war against the holy seed.
You are Christ’s soldiers, listed under His banner. Show your fidelity and your love to your Captain and General in manfully maintaining the spiritual combat against His and your spiritual enemies. Fight the good fight of faith. Resist unto blood; don’t yield upon any account. Disdainfully turn away the eye and ear when these enemies would entice and allure you, and stoutly make resolute opposition against them when they do most furiously assault you. Hearken to no suggestions of the devil, temptations of the world, or motions of the flesh that would induce and draw you into ways of sin, or that would force and drive you out of the ways of Christ. Resist, oppose, and labor to gain some victories over these adversaries every day. Especially get conquest over the flesh, and the other two will be soon vanquished.
_Thomas Vincent (1634-1678)_
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