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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.
1. Of Conjurers, Sorcerers, and such like, who imagine that the Devil may be driven away by charms, and they kept safe from him by spells, circles, &c.
1. Of Coniurers, Sorcerers, and such like, who imagine that the Diuell may be driuen away by charmes, and they kept safe from him by spels, circles, &c.
2. Of superstitious Papists,1 who think to drive the Devil away with Holy-water, Holy-oil, Crosses, Crucifixes, Agnis Dei, &c.
2. Of superstitious Papists,1 who thinke to driue the Diuell away with Holy-water, Holy-oyle, Crosses, Crucifixes, Agnis Dei, &c.
- 1Bellar. de cult. Sanct. li. 3. cap. 7. utimur aqua, olqo, &c. ad fugandos daemones.Bellar. de cult. Sanct. li. 3. cap. 7. vtimur aqua, olqo, &c. ad fugandos daemones.
3. Of sottish worldlings, who seek to arm themselves against the spiritual assaults of Satan by outward means, as against grief of mind and terror of conscience, bya music, company, gaming, &c. the truth is, that by these means great advantage many times is given to the Devil: for thus he getteth a surer possession in them▪