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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.
1 Because of the necessary relation betwixt receiving and offering: for receiving presupposeth an offering.
1 Because of the necessary relation betwixt receiuing and offering: for receiuing presupposeth an offering.
2 To show the ground of our receiving, which is Gods free offer.
2 To shew the ground of our receiuing, which is Gods free offer.
3 To show that all they who receive not Christ, plainly reject him: and so are justly condemned for rejecting him.
3 To shew that all they who receiue not Christ, plainly reiect him: and so are iustly condemned for reiecting him.
4 Are received) In the act of receiving, the nature of justifying faith especially consisteth, for thereby is Christ made a mans own: in this the best temporary faith that may be, cometh short of justifying faith: for all that joy which temporary believers conceive, ariseth not from any true possession of Christ, but only from some apprehension of those great and excellent things, which in the Gospel are promised. Justifying faith is as it