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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.
§. 7. Every grace to be used.
§. 7. Euery grace to be vsed.
AS this particle, whole, is annexed to armour, to commend unto us the sufficiency of the armour of God, whereof we have heard before: so this compound word, whole armour, is inferred upon that action of putting on, to teach us, that it is not sufficient to put on some parts and pieces thereof, but every part and piece, the whole armour must be put on. From the true scope of the Apostles meaning, I gather that,
AS this particle, whole, is annexed to armour, to commend vnto vs the sufficiencie of the armour of God, whereof we haue heard before: so this compound word, whole armour, is inferred vpon that action of putting on, to teach vs, that it is not sufficient to put on some parts and peeces thereof, but euery part and peece, the whole armour must be put on. From the true scope of the Apostles meaning, I gather that,
The power of every sanctifying grace must be manifest in the life of a Christian. 1This was it whereunto he exhorted before, saying,a Let us in all things grow up, &c. There he useth a Metaphor taken from the members of a natural body, implying that spiritual graces are to the spirit, as fleshly members to a body; now if the body grow in some parts only, and not in every part proportionably, (as if it