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The whole-armour of GodThe vvhole-armor of God
The whole-armour of God: or A Christians spiritual furniture, to keep him safe from all the assaults of Satan First preached, and now the second time published and enlarged for the good of all such as well use it:whereunto is also added a treatise of the sin against the Holy Ghost. By William Gouge B.D. and preacher of Gods Word in Black Fryers London. ...The vvhole-armor of God: or A Christians spiritual furniture, to keepe him safe from all the assaults of Satan First preached, and now the second time published and enlarged for the good of all such as well vse it:whereunto is also added a treatise of the sinne against the Holy Ghost. By VVilliam Gouge B.D. and preacher of Gods Word in Blacke Fryers London. ...
London: printed by John Beale, 1619London: printed by Iohn Beale, 1619
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 29. Of Gods assisting his children in affliction.
3 For the third,1 cmany faithful promises hath God made to stand by his children, to be with them, and assist them in their several afflictions, and never to forsake them. Hence is it that the Saints, to the great admiration of others, have patiently endured such crosses, as many have thought they would have been utterly pressed down with the heavy burden of them, even as the Barbarians looked when Paul should have fallen down dead.3
3 FOr the third,1 cmany faithfull promises hath God made to stand by his children, to be with them, and assist them in their seuerall afflictions, and neuer to forsake them. Hence is it that the Saints, to the great admiration of others, haue patiently endured such crosses, as many haue thought they would haue beene vtterly pressed downe with the heauy burden of them, euen as the Barbarians looked when Paul should haue fallen downe dead.3
- 13. By it, assistance in all troubles is obtained.
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