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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.
Thirdly, to maintain the divine ordinance of preaching, and expounding the Scriptures.
Thirdly, to maintaine the diuine ordinance of preaching, and expounding the Scriptures.
Fourthly, to raise up in us an appetite after the Word, and an high esteem of it, and to keep us from loathing it. Deep and profound matters are much desired and respected easy things are soon loathed.1 Wherefore the holy Spirit of God hath so tempered the holy Scripture, as by the perspicuity of it we are kept from starving, and by the difficulty of it from loathing it.
Fourthly, to raise vp in vs an appetite after the Word, and an high esteeme of it, and to keepe vs from loathing it. Deepe and profound matters are much desired and respected easie things are soone loathed.1 Wherefore the holy Spirit of God hath so tempered the holy Scripture, as by the perspicuity of it we are kept from staruing, and by the difficulty of it from loathing it.
- 1Magnifice et salubriter Spiritus it a Scripturas modificavit, ut locis apertiorihus fami o• curreret, obscurioribus fastidia detergeret. Aug. de Doct. Chr. lib. 2. ca. 6.Magnifice et salubriter Spiritus it a Scripturas modificauit, vt locis apertiorihus fami o• curreret, obscurioribus fastidia detergeret. Aug. de Doct. Chr. lib. 2. ca. 6.