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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.
2 Sleep, 1which is intimated in the direction that the Prophet giveth in these words, Lie all night in sack-cloth, 2whereby is intended that either they should all night forbear sleep, or else that by wearing sackcloth, they should be kept from overmuch sleep (wherein they that lie in fine linen and soft beds, are prone to exceed.) Thus David to keep himself from sleep in the time of his fast, would not come into a bed,3 but lay all night upon the earth. Though those particular rites of wearing sackcloth, lying on the earth, sitting up all night, with the like, be not overstrictly to be urged, or used, yet the equity of them is still to be observed; which is, that in the day of a Fast we sleep less, and rise sooner then at other times, that so the body may be somewhat the more afflicted thereby, and that the more time may be gained for religious duties. If some sleep be not forborne, the want of food will not be so much felt, nor the body so humbled and afflicted as it should be.
2 Sleepe, 1which is intimated in the direction that the Prophet giueth in these words, Lie all night in sack-cloth, 2whereby is intended that either they should all night forbeare sleep, or else that by wearing sackcloth, they should be kept from ouermuch sleepe (wherein they that lie in fine linnen and soft beds, are prone to exceede.) Thus Dauid to keepe himselfe from sleepe in the time of his fast, would not come into a bed,3 but lay all night vpon the earth. Though those particular rites of wearing sackcloth, lying on the earth, sitting vp all night, with the like, be not ouerstrictly to be vrged, or vsed, yet the equity of them is still to be obserued; which is, that in the day of a Fast we sleepe lesse, and rise sooner then at other times, that so the body may be somewhat the more afflicted thereby, and that the more time may be gained for religious duties. If some sleepe be not forborne, the want of foode will not be so much felt, nor the body so humbled and afflicted as it should be.