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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
THE Whole Armour of GOD. › Treatise 2 › Part 6 › Section 60: §. 60. Of losing Faith.
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 It may be so covered over and smothered, as it cannot be discerned: they can for the time have no assurance of it.
1 It may be so couered ouer and smothered, as it cannot be discerned: they can for the time haue no assurance of it.
2 All the joy and comfort of it (wherewith they were formerly upheld) may be clean taken away, and they even faint for want of it.
2 All the ioy and comfort of it (wherewith they were formerly vpheld) may be cleane taken away, and they euen faint for want of it.
3 No fruits thereof may appear, but they be as trees in winter: little conscience of any duty, dull in hearing Gods word, cold in prayer, nothing remaining but a formal profession, if that.
3 No fruits thereof may appeare, but they be as trees in winter: little conscience of any duty, dull in hearing Gods word, cold in prayer, nothing remaining but a formall profession, if that.