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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 80: §. 80. Of the meaning of the Metaphor.
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To amplify this benefit of Faith, the Apostle describeth⟨p. 280⟩ our enemy by his malicious and mischievous nature (the wicked) (or,1 as the original with an emphasis setteth it down, that wicked one) and his temptations, by the kind of them under this metaphor Darts.
To amplifie this benefit of Faith, the Apostle describeth⟨p. 280⟩ our enemy by his malicious and mischieuous nature (the wicked) (or,1 as the originall with an emphasis setteth it downe, that wicked one) and his temptations, by the kind of them vnder this metaphor Darts.
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Of the nature of this wicked one, I have spoken before on verse 12.
Of the nature of this wicked one, I haue spoken before on verse 12.
For the metaphor, a Dart is a kind of weapon that is flung, slung, or shot at a man far off, which if it hit him, will deeply pierce him, and sorely gall him. I showed before how we were oft forced to wrestle with Satan, and to grapple with him hand to hand. Here is showed that he hath also Darts to shoot at us a far off, so as he can pierce and wound us when we see him not: he can send at us, though he come not to us. As when