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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
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§. 24. Of Ignorance: how heinous a sin it is.
§. 24. Of Ignorance: how hainous a sinne it is.
The devotion which is pretended to come from ignorance, is mere superstition, or, which is worse, Idolatry. So much the Apostle affirmeth,c When ye knew not God, ye did service to them which by nature are not Gods. 2For ignorance of Gods word is the cause of all error, as Christ implieth, saying, You err, not knowing the Scriptures, (Matth. 21. 29.) Yea the Scriptures being They which testify⟨p. 339⟩ of Christ (Joh. 5. 39.) upon ignorance of the Scriptures must needs follow ignorance of Christ. Now ignorance being in it self a most odious vice,d against which Christ will come in flaming fire to render vengeance: and a mother sin, which bringeth forth many other notorious sins: how can any good thing come from it? Certainly this cavil which is raised against knowledge for ignorance, hath sprung, either from Envy, whereby men grieve at the knowledge and good parts which are in others; or from Ambition, whereby they seek to be eminent above all other; or from Policy, seeking thereby a cover for their own ignorance.c Moses (who desired that all the Lords people were Prophets) and