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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.
1. He can well tell how to marshal and set his army in array;1 he well knoweth how to order his temptations: For first he useth to make the on-set with light skirmishes and to begin with small temptation; and then by degrees to follow with greater and mightier forces. Thus came he toa Eve; first only he made a question whether God had forbidden them any of the trees: and then by degrees he cameb directly to contradict the express word⟨p. 41⟩ of God. So when he tempted Christ,c he began with a doubt whether Christ were the Son of God or no, and lastly tempted him to monstrous idolatry.
1. He can well tell how to marshall and set his armie in array;1 he well knoweth how to order his temptations: For first he vseth to make the on-set with light skirmishes and to begin with small temptation; and then by degrees to follow with greater and mightier forces. Thus came he toa Eue; first onely he made a question whether God had forbidden them any of the trees: and then by degrees he cameb directly to contradict the expresse word⟨p. 41⟩ of God. So when he tempted Christ,c he began with a doubt whether Christ were the Sonne of God or no, and lastly tempted him to monstrous idolatry.
- 1Satans shifts.