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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.
§. 6. Of the reasons why our desire is to be made known to God.
§. 6. Of the reasons why our desire is to be made knowne to God.
Quest. What need is there that any prayer should be made to God at all?a God knoweth the secrets of our heart, and bunderstandeth our thought a far off.
Quest. VVHat need is there that any prayer should be made to God at all?a God knoweth the secrets of our heart, and bvnderstandeth our thought a far off.
- aPsal 44. 21.
- band 139. 2.
Aus. 1Prayer is made not simply to make known the desire and thoughts of our hearts to God, so as otherwise God might be ignorant of them, but to testify mans obedience to that order which God hath set down. For⟨p. 348⟩