A01979:1728
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.
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.
First mangled by leaving out something of moment; mas in the text which Satan allegeth to Christ,2 he left out this clause, in all thy waves, which had taken away all the force of his temptation: for it was not Christs way to fling himself headlong from a pinnacle, there being other ways and means whereby he might come down: so ain the description of a natural mans condition, this word only is left out in the vulgar Latin translation, whereby they would avoid the text alleged against their semi-Pelagian opinion of mans being only half dead in sin.