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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 All manner of sports, pastimes, and recreations: 1for creation of the body by sports, is contrary to humiliation. […] ⟨p. 453⟩food, sleep, costly apparel, matrimonial benevolence, works of our calling, sweet perfumes, with the like, must be forborne, much more recreations, which are not so necessary as the other, and yet more delightsome.
7 All manner of sports, pastimes, and recreations: 1for creation of the body by sports, is contrary to humiliation. 〈…〉 ⟨p. 453⟩food, sleepe, costly apparell, matrimoniall beneuolence, workes of our calling, sweet perfumes, with the like, must be forborne, much more recreations, which are not so necessary as the other, and yet more delightsome.
- 17. Sports.
To conclude, such forbearance of refreshing the body is required in the time of a Fast, as may be felt, and by the sense thereof the body something afflicted: so did the Jews, as may be gathered out of this their expostulation, Wherefore have we fasted, and afflicted our soul? 1which though it were the expostulation of hypocrites, yet of such as in outward religious exercises imitated the Saints. But more directly is this proved by a like phrase which Ezra that good and learned Scribe used▪ saying;2