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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.
§. 41. Of vain wishes for the dead.
§. 41. Of vaine wishes for the dead.
Not much unlike is the practise of many ignorant and superstitious persons among us, who, if mention be made of any of their friends departed, use presently to say, God be with him, the Lord be with his soul, or God have mercy on his soul, with the like. Mark the persons that most commonly use these vain wishes, and you shall observe them to be such ignorant and irreligious persons as never pray for their friends while they are alive: for if they knew how to pray aright for their friends, they would not make such unprofitable wishes for them. Wherein note their preposterous course: when true Prayer is warrantable, acceptable, honourable to God, and may be profitable to him for whom it is made, being commanded of God, and agreeable to his will, they impiously neglect it: but when there is no warrant to make it, no hope of doing any good by it, they superstitiously use it.
NOt much vnlike is the practise of many ignorant and superstitious persons among vs, who, if mention be made of any of their friends departed, vse presently to say, God be with him, the Lord be with his soule, or God haue mercy on his soule, with the like. Marke the persons that most commonly vse these vaine wishes, and you shall obserue them to be such ignorant and irreligious persons as neuer pray for their friends while they are aliue: for if they knew how to pray aright for their friends, they would not make such vnprofitable wishes for them. Wherin note their preposterous course: when true Prayer is warrantable, acceptable, honourable to God, and may be profitable to him for whom it is made, being commanded of God, and agreeable to his will, they impiously neglect it: but when there is no warrant to make it, no hope of doing any good by it, they superstitiously vse it.