A01979:1293
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.
§. 55. Of love arising from Faith.
§. 55. Of loue arising from Faith.
The ground-work of a clear conscience is love:1 for Faith giveth assurance of Gods love: a sense of Gods⟨p. 254⟩ love worketh love to God: as fire causeth heat, so love causeth love,m We love God, because he loved us first. And this love stirreth us up to endeavour to have a clear conscience before God. I may not unfitly resemble Faith, love, and a clear conscience, to the sap, bud, and fruit of a tree:n the tree is Christ, the several branches are particular Christians: the sap which runneth through all the several branches, and is the very4 life of them, is the Spirit: that which receiveth and conveyeth the sap into every branch is Faith: the bud which first sprouteth out, isp Love: the fruit which cometh out of that bud, and manifesteth all the rest, is that clear conscience which now we speak of: both fruit and bud spring out of the sap; yet the fruit cometh immediately out of the bud: so both love and a clear conscience come from Faith, but a clear conscience immediately from love. Our love to God is it which maketh us careful to please him, fearful to offend him. Wherefore first make trial of Faith by love: for mark what Christ said of the poor penitent sinner,