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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.
§. 16. Of the resemblance betwixt Hope and an Anchor.
3 The use of hope may fi•ly be set forth by that other metaphor whereunto Hope is resembled,1 namely, an Anchor. (Heb. 6. 19.)
3 THe vse of hope may fi•ly be set forth by that other metaphor whereunto Hope is resembled,1 namely, an Anchor. (Heb. 6. 19.)
- 13. How hope is well used.3. How hope is well vsed.
1 It must be cast upon a sure ground. 1If an anchor be cast into a bottomless sea, where is no ground, or on quick sands, which are no sure ground, it is of no use, the ship may be tossed up and down, and suffer wrack for all that. The only sure ground of hope is Gods promise revealed in his Word. That this is a most firm ground cannot be doubted of, unless the goodness, power and faithfulness of God be called into question. For as God himself is, so is his Word, faithful and true, sure and certain: nothing more firm and stable: