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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 Heretics falsifying the Word.
§. 16. Of Heretiques falsifying the Word.
That which Heretics,1 or other wicked men allege to justify any error in doctrine, or corruption in life, is only the bare letter of the Word, not the true sense thereof, and so not the word of God, but conceits of their own brain: for if all the Scriptures which they allege, be well sifted and throughly examined, we shall find them either mangled, or mingled, perverted or misapplied.
THat which Heretiques,1 or other wicked men alleadge to iustifie any error in doctrine, or corruption in life, is onely the bare letter of the Word, not the true sence thereof, and so not the word of God, but conceits of their owne braine: for if all the Scriptures which they alleadge, be well sifted and throughly examined, we shall find them either mangled, or mingled, peruerted or misapplied.
- 1Haeretici carpunt eloquia scripturarum, et quantum in se est maculant. Hieron in Ezec. 34.