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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.
Answ. 1Their joy is no true, sound, solid joy, but a mere shadow and show thereof, which is evident both by the birth, and also by the death of it. The birth is too sudden to be sound: that which suddenly sprouteth up, can have no deep rooting:p Christ fitly compareth such joy to corn sown in stony ground.
Answ. 1Their ioy is no true, sound, solid ioy, but a meere shadow and shew thereof, which is euident both by the birth, and also by the death of it. The birth is too sudden to be sound: that which suddenly sprouteth vp, can haue no deep rooting:p Christ fitly compareth such ioy to corne sowen in stony ground.
- 1The joy of hypocrites not sound.The ioy of hypocrites not sound.
- pMat. 13. 20.
The death of it is irrecoverable, it clean drieth up, and utterly vanisheth away, which, if it had substance, it would never do: thereforeq the Scripture maketh it a property of an hypocrites joy to be but for a moment: as⟨p. 251⟩ dew vanisheth away by the Sun, so may their joy by persecution.