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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 Of the persons who are deputed to that work.
2 Of the persons who are deputed to that worke.
The function of a Minister is to quicken such as a• dead in sin: to raise up and restore such as are falle• ⟨p. 411⟩back again; to comfort those that are troubled in conscience; to strengthen the weak; to encourage the faint hearted; to confound the obstinate; to stand against all adverse power; together with many other like things, all which are above humane strain, more then flesh and blood can do: yet the persons to whose ministry these great works are deputed, are flesh and blood,b sons of men;2 Men subject to the like common passions that all other men are, in consideration whereof, many being called to this function, have sought to decline it, asd Moses, eJeremiah, fJonah, and others; andg Elisha, when he was to succeed Elijah, desired that the spirit of Elijah might be doubled upon him.
The function of a Minister is to quicken such as a• dead in sinne: to raise vp and restore such as are falle•