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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.
§. 10. Of the Papists c•uill against Faith.
IF any popishly minded shall think,1 or say, that so much preaching and learning of Faith, is an hinderance to good works, and maketh men careless of all piety and charity.
IF any popishly minded shall thinke,1 or say, that so much preaching and learning of Faith, is an hinderance to good workes, and maketh men carelesse of all piety and charity.
- 1Object.Obiect.
I answer,1 that if any be so minded, they ared blinded by the god of this world, that the light of the glorious Gospel should not shine unto them. The truth is, that no other doctrine can make men more conscionable in performing all duty to God and man, then the doctrine of faith. From Faith proceed all good works: For it is faith in Gods love which moveth a man to love God again, and love to God is it which moveth a man to love his brother, which is made after Gods Image, and standeth in Gods room and steed. Now there can be no stronger motive to stir up a man to any duty then love: A loving child will much more seek to please his father, then a servile bond-slave: and a loving friend will do much more kindness for a friend, then a stranger, though he be hired thereunto. He that indeed believeth that God so loved him, as he spared not his only begotten Son, but gave him a price of redemption; that in his Son God hath vouchsafed to be reconciled to him, to give him pardon of all his sins, freedom from hell and damnation, and to bestow on him all things pertaining to life and