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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.
§. 9. Who are without armour, can have no hope to stand.
§. 9. Who are without armour, can haue no hope to stand.
For the first,1 that which the Prophet saith of one piece of this armour, the shield of faith, I may well apply to the whole armour, if ye have it not on you,a Surely ye shall not be established, ye cannot stand.
FOr the first,1 that which the Prophet saith of one peece of this armour, the shield of faith, I may well apply to the whole armour, if yee haue it not on you,a Surely yee shall not be established, yee cannot stand.
- 1No safety without armour.No safetie without armour.
- aIsa. 7. 9.
Without this armour we are naked,1 and lye open to every dart and shot of our spiritual enemies: and are no more able to free our selves from the power of the Devil, then a poor silly Lamb or Kid from a roaring Lion or ravenous Bear. If being unfenced, we stand safe, it must be either by reason of the goodness of the Devil, that he pitieth us, and cannot find in his heart to take any advantage against us; or of his carelessness and blindness, that he prieth not about us, or observeth when, & where we are fenced or naked; or of his weakness, that he is not able to pierce and wound us, though we be naked: but such is his malice, his subtlety, and sedulity; such also his power (as we shall after hear) that none can imagine there should be any such goodness, carelessness, blindness, or weakness in him.