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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 The thing vowed,1 must be both lawful and possible.2 To vow to commit a sin (as the Jews vowed to kill Paul) is a double iniquity. To vow that which we are not able to do (as many who vow perpetual continency) is a plain mockery.
2 The thing vowed,1 must bee both lawfull and possible.2 To vow to commit a sinne (as the Iewes vowed to kill Paul) is a double iniquity. To vowe that which we are not able to doe (as many who vow perpetuall continency) is a plaine mockery.
- 12 What may be vowed.
- 2Acts 23. 18.
3 In regard of the manner,1 a vow must be made freely and maturely. A vow is a kind of spiritual offering, it must therefore be a free will offering, or elsea can it not be acceptable to God. It is not meet for Parents to force their children, or any man to force another to make a vow.
3 In regard of the manner,1 a vow must be made freely and maturely. A vowe is a kinde of spirituall offering, it must therefore bee a free will offering, or else