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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.
§. 91. Of motives to public prayer.
§. 91. Of motiues to publike prayer.
Thus having given some directions for public prayer,1 I will lay down some motives to stir us with conscience to perform it.
THus hauing giuē some directions for publike prayer,1 I will lay downe some motiues to stirre vs with conscience to performe it.
- 1Motives to public prayer.Motiues to publike prayer.
1 The more public prayer is,1 the more honourable & acceptable it is to God. If it be an honour to God for one to pray, the more do join together therein, the more honourable it must needs be: it is the more acceptable, because God delights in the joint consent of his Saints worshipping him: whereupon God promised,l Where two or three were gathered together in his name, to be in the midst of them.
1 The more publike prayer is,1 the more honorable & acceptable it is to God. If it be an honor to God for one to pray, the more do ioyne together therin, the more honorable it must needs be: it is the more acceptable, because God delights in the ioynt consent of his Saints worshipping him: whereupon God promised,