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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
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The true proper reasons hereof are,1 the mercy of God (who desireth not the death of sinners) and the Sacrifice of Christ, whereby the Justice of God is satisfied: in which respect Christ is said to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 2So as there is nothing in the sinner to move God to pass by his sins, but only the sweet concurrence of mercy and justice in God.
The true proper reasons hereof are,1 the mercy of God (who desireth not the death of sinners) and the Sacrifice of Christ, whereby the Iustice of God is satisfied: in which respect Christ is said to put away sinne by the sacrifice of himselfe. 2So as there is nothing in the sinner to moue God to passe by his sinnes, but onely the sweete concurrence of mercy and iustice in God.
- 1Reasons. Ezek. 33. 11.
- 2Heb. 9. 26.
Admirable is the comfort which hence ariseth to poor sinners.1 Sin makes the creature to be most wretched and cursed. By reason thereof he is odious in the pure eyes of God: yea he is liable to the infinite wrath of God, and to all the fearful fruits thereof, which are all the⟨p. 573⟩