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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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A Christians course of life is a warfare: 1for armour, especially the use of armour, is a token of war: armour is not given to a man to sit with it at a fire, or to lye lazing on a bed, or wantonly to dance up and down, or follow pastimes and pleasures in it, but to fight: to this purpose many like metaphors are used. Christians themselves are calleda Soldiers; their course of lifeb a fight; they which oppose against themc enemies; the temptations wherewith they are annoyedd assaults; in a word, this is a difference betwixt the Church in Heaven and in earth, that this is militant, that triumphant.
A Christians course of life is a warfare: 1for armour, especially the vse of armour, is a token of warre: armour is not giuen to a man to sit with it at a fire, or to lye lazing on a bed, or wantonly to dance vp and downe, or follow pastimes and pleasures in it, but to fight: to this purpose many like metaphors are vsed. Christians themselues are calleda Souldiers; their course of lifeb a fight; they which oppose against themc enemies; the temptations wherwith they are annoyedd assaults; in a word, this is a difference betwixt the Church in Heauen and in earth, that this is militant, that triumphant.
- 1Doct. 1. Our life a warfare.