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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.
§. 127. Of the work of the Spirit in prayer.
§. 127. Of the worke of the Spirit in prayer.
For the first,1 note what the Prophet saith in Gods name to Jerusalem, hI will pour upon them the spirit of supplications. He calleth the gifts of prayer the spirit of supplications, because it is Gods Spirit which worketh in us this gift, and enableth us to call upon God: in a like respect, Saint Paul useth this phrase,i The Spirit of faith. More plainly is this point proved, by that phrase which Saint Jude useth,k Praying in the holy Ghost: but most evidently bya Saint Paul, who layeth it down, first affirmatively, saying, The Spirit helpeth our infirmities, and maketh intercession for us: then negatively, saying, We know not what to pray, &c. What may the Apostle mean by this phrase, The Spirit it self maketh intercession? Doth the holy Ghost truly and properly pray for us, as Christ our High Priest and Mediator, or as one of us for another? Noah verily: for then should the holy Ghost be our Mediator (which was one of Arrius his heresies) an office which is never attributed to him, but appropriated to Christ:b For there is one God, and one Mediator betwixt God and man, the man Christ Jesus Besides, then also should God make request to God; for the holy Ghost is God, but not man also, as Christ was. The meaning then of the Apostle must needs be this, that the Spirit of God stirreth us up to pray, quickening, and putting life into our dead and dull spirits, yea inwardly, as it were, suggesteth unto us, and infuseth into us such desires, such sighs & groans, yea and such words, as are acceptable to God, which for