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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
THE Whole Armour of GOD. › Treatise 3 › Part 2 › Section 58: §. 58. Of the Popes manner of cursing.
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§. 58. Of the Popes manner of cursing.
Among and above all others, he that taketh upon him to be the Vicar of Christ, and successor of Peter, doth exceed in hellish imprecations, and devilish execrations: for he useth, not suddenly and rashly, but deliberately and advisedly, in and at his solemn serving of God, to curse with bell, book, and candle, and that to the very pit of hell, no meaner personages then the Lords Anointed, Kings and Queens, together with their Subjects and whole Kingdoms, and that for maintaining the true, ancient, Catholic, and Apostolic Faith.
AMong and aboue all others, he that taketh vpon him to be the Vicar of Christ, and successour of Peter, doth exceede in hellish imprecations, and diuellish execrations: for he vseth, not suddenly and rashly, but deliberately and aduisedly, in and at his solemne seruing of God, to curse with bell, booke, and candle, and that to the very pit of hell, no meaner personages then the Lords Annointed, Kings and Queenes, together with their Subiects and whole Kingdomes, and that for maintaining the true, ancient, Catholicke, and Apostolicke Faith.
Of him and all other which unjustly and unchristianly use such fearful imprecations, if in time they repent not, I may use the words of David. lAs he loved cursing, so shall it come unto him: as he clothed himself with cursing⟨p. 399⟩ like a raiment, so shall it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.