A01979:2920
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. As suffering in it self is no matter of shame, so neither of honour: it is the cause for which one suffereth, which altereth the case this way or that way.
Answ. As suffering in it selfe is no matter of shame, so neither of honour: it is the cause for which one suffereth, which altereth the case this way or that way.
The thieves betwixt whom Christ was crucified,1 suffered one and the same kind of punishment, yet could one of them say;* We receive things worthy of that we have done, but this man hath done nothing amiss.
The theeues betwixt whom Christ was crucified,1 suffered one and the same kind of punishment, yet could one of them say;* We receiue things worthy of that we haue done, but this man hath done nothing amisse.
- 1Ibi erat Christus, •vbi & latrones. Similis paena, sed dissimilis causa. Aug. ser. 50. de sanc.
- *Luk. 23. 14
3 The third thing therefore to be considered, is the cause of S. Pauls suffering, implied under this clause; For which, namely, for the Gospel. For both the function, and also the condition of the Apostle hath reference thereunto, as he was an Ambassador for the Gospel, so for the Gospel he was in a chain.