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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
THE Whole Armour of GOD. › Treatise 1 › Part 3: THE THIRD PART.
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.
THE THIRD PART.
The reason why we must be well armed.
Ephes. 6. 12. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against Principalities, against Powers, against worldly Governors, Princes of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly things.
Ephes. 6. 12. For wee wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against Principalities, against Powers, against worldly Gouernours, Princes of the darknesse of this world, against spirituall wickednesse in heauenly things.
§. 1. The coherence.
IN this verse is laid down the motive which the Apostle useth, to urge the fore-named direction. It may have a double reference First, general to the former exhortation, Be strong, &c. yea, and put on the whole armour, &c. because we have such enemies as are here described. Secondly, particular to the last clause of the former verse, where he showed that we were to stand against the Devil, so it serves as an amplification of them: for if the question be asked, what