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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.
Answ. At Rome (where Paul was a prisoner) such prisoners as were not closed up in prisons,1 but had liberty to go abroad,2 had a long chain, the one end whereof was fastened to their right hand, and the other end was tied to a soldiers left hand, so as the prisoner could go no whether without that soldier, who was as a keeper to him. And thus it is likely that Saint Paul was chained: for he mentioneth here but one chain in the singular number: and it is said thatc Paul was with a Soldier that kept him.
Answ. At Rome (where Paul was a prisoner) such prisoners as were not closed vp in prisons,1 but had liberty to goe abroade,2 had a long chaine, the one end whereof was fastened to their right hand, and the other end was tied to a souldiers left hand, so as the prisoner could goe no whether without that souldier, who was as a keeper to him. And thus it is likely that Saint Paul was chained: for he mentioneth here but one chaine in the singular number: and it is said thatc Paul was with a Souldier that kept him.
- 1How Paul was chained.
- 2Lipsius in lib. Taciti 3.
- cActs 28. 16.