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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 100: §. 100. Of the sundry kinds of Fasts.
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5 A spiritual fast,1 is when men abstain from vice, which is as food to their corrupt nature: Hereof the Lord speaketh,2 where he saith; Is not this the fast which I have chosen to loose the bonds of wickedness? This is called a fast only by way of resemblance.
5 A spirituall fast,1 is when men abstaine from vice, which is as food to their corrupt nature: Hereof the Lord speaketh,2 where he saith; Is not this the fast which I haue chosen to loose the bonds of wickednesse? This is called a fast onely by way of resemblance.
- 15 The sanctified mans fast.
- 2Isa. 58. 6.
6 A miraculous fast, 1is when men extraordinarily assisted by the power of God, abstain from all manner of food longer then the nature of man is able to endure: such were the fasts of Moses, Elijah, and Christ, 2who fasted forty days together.3
6 A miraculous fast, 1is when men extraordinarily assisted by the power of God, abstaine from all manner of foode longer then the nature of man is able to endure: such were the fasts of Moses, Eliah, and Christ,