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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.
AN ADVERTISEMENT to the Reader.
CHRISTIAN READER,
THE good entertainment which this Treatise of The whole Armour of God, hath found among Gods people, emboldeneth me again to publish the same. The same it is for substance which thou haddest before: for I find no just cause to alter any part of the substance thereof. Only here and there something hath been added, to make such points as seemed too concise and obscure, more perspicuous.
THE good entertainment which this Treatise of The whole Armour of God, hath found among Gods people, emboldeneth me againe to publish the same. The same it is for substance which thou haddest before: for I find no iust cause to alter any part of the substance thereof. Onely here and there something hath beene added, to make such points as seemed too concise and obscure, more perspicuous.
Some there were, that finding the head of Fasting in the Table, looked for a distinct and larger discourse of that point, which when they found not (for I did but briefly by the way touch it, as an help to Prayer) they entreated me to take a little more pains thereabout. To their good motion I have yielded, and according to my poor ability, and little leisure, I have more copiously handled that very-needful, but too-much-neglected duty of Fasting.