A01979:1752
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.
§. 22. Answer to Satan's suggestion of the danger of suffering all sorts to read the Scriptures.
§. 22. Answer to Satans suggestion of the danger of suffering all sorts to reade the Scriptures.
4 Sugg. IT is indeed a two-edged Sword: but too sharp and keen for children. It is not fit that Lay-men, Women, and such as have not skill in Tongues and Arts, should read it: they oft pierce and wound their own souls & consciences with this Sword, as children hurt themselves with knives. With this also are the Papists exceedingly beguiled.
4 Sugg. IT is indeed a two-edged Sword: but too sharpe and keene for children. It is not fit that Lay-men, Woemen, and such as haue not skill in Tongues and Arts, should reade it: they oft pierce and wound their own soules & consciences with this Sword, as children hurt themselues with kniues. With this also are the Papists exceedingly beguiled.
Answ. As the Word is sharp in it self, so hathb it an inward power to give sharpness of wit, & that unto the simple: and to the child, knowledge and discretion, so as by the word they may learn well to use the Word. How can that be thought to be unfit for laymen & women to use, which God hath expressly commanded them to use, except question⟨p. 337⟩