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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
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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⟨p. 213⟩ it were the hand of the soul, a spiritual instrument framed in our hearts by the Spirit of God, whereby we lay hold on Christ, and apply or take unto our selves, and receive those things which God in the Gospel offereth unto us.1 This word of receiving, fitly answereth that metaphor of eating and drinking, 2so oft used in the Scripture to set forth the nature of Faith. Ye know that all the benefit we receive by food, cometh from our eating & drinking it: though there be set before a man great plenty of dainty and wholesome cheer, yet if it be not eaten, where is the benefit of it? so in vain is Christ with all his benefits offered, if he be not received.
4 Are receiued) In the act of receiuing, the nature of iustifying faith especially consisteth, for thereby is Christ made a mans owne: in this the best temporary faith that may be, commeth short of iustifying faith: for all that ioy which temporary beleeuers conceiue, ariseth not from any true possession of Christ, but onely from some apprehension of those great and excellent things, which in the Gospell are promised. Iustifying faith is as it