every star and planet, every shower and sunbeam, every plant and
animal and stone, every body and every soul of man; who will teach
men, in his good time and way, all that they need know, in order to
multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it in this life, and
attain everlasting life in the world to come. And for the rest,
puzzled though I be, shall I not trust him, who not only made this
world, but so loved it, that he stooped to die for it upon the Cross?



SERMON XI.--THE ARMOUR OF GOD



(Preached before the Prince of Wales, at Sandringham, January 20th,
1867.)

EPHESIANS vi. 11.

Put on the whole armour of God.

St. Paul again and again compares himself and the Christians to whom
he writes to soldiers, and their lives to warfare. And it was
natural that he should do so. Everywhere he went, in those days, he
would find Roman soldiers, ruling over men of different races from
themselves, and ruling them, on the whole, well. Greeks, Syrians,
Jews, Egyptians,--all alike in his days obeyed the Roman soldiers,
who had conquered the then known world.

And St. Paul and his disciples wished to conquer the world likewise.