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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
THE Whole Armour of GOD. › Treatise 2 › Part 6 › Section 6: §. 6. Of pressing the doctrine of Faith.
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§. 6. Of pressing the doctrine of Faith.
The Apostle useth this phrase (above all) in the beginning of his exhortation, to set an edge upon it, and to make it the sharper, that so it may pierce the deeper into us: as if a captain should give divers directions to his soldiers, to instruct them to arm, and fence themselves, and among those several directions, set some special item on one of them, and say, Above all remember this, would not this item make him the more to regard it? As hwhere the Apostle saith, Do good to all, especially to them who are of the household of Faith: doth it not make a Christian so much the more to be moved with compassion, when he seeth any of the faithful stand in need of his help? Hence then I observe that,
THe Apostle vseth this phrase (aboue all) in the beginning of his exhortation, to set an edge vpon it, and to make it the sharper, that so it may pierce the deeper into vs: as if a captaine should giue diuers directions to his souldiers, to instruct them to arme, and fence themselues, and among those seuerall directions, set some speciall item on one of them, and say, Aboue all remember this, would not this item make him the more to regard it? As hwhere the Apostle saith, Doe good to all, especially to them who are of the houshold of Faith: doth it not make a Christian so much the more to be moued with compassion, when hee seeth any of the faithfull stand in need of his helpe? Hence then I obserue that,