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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 To commend unto you this precious gift of Faith. For how much the more excellent the Author of any thing is, and the end which he aimeth at therein, so much more excellent is the thing it self.
1 To commend vnto you this precious gift of Faith. For how much the more excellent the Author of any thing is, and the end which he aimeth at therein, so much more excellent is the thing it selfe.
2 To take away all matter of boasting from them who have this gift: though it be a most precious grace, yeto it affordeth no matter of glorying to us in our selves, because we have it not of our selves.
2 To take away all matter of boasting from them who haue this gift: though it be a most precious grace, yeto it affordeth no matter of glorying to vs in our selues, because we haue it not of our selues.
3 To stir us up to give all the praise and glory thereof to God: upon this very ground doth the Apostle give pglory to God, because of him, and through him, and for him are all things.
3 To stirre vs vp to giue all the praise and glory thereof to God: vpon this very ground doth the Apostle giue