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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.
Object. Why then is not the sin against the Holy Ghost pardonable?
Obiect. Why then is not the sinne against the Holy Ghost pardonable?
Answ. Not because it is greater then Gods mercy, or above the price of Christs oblation, but because of Gods revealed determination against it, as we shall* hereafter more distinctly hear.
Answ. Not because it is greater then Gods mercy, or aboue the price of Christs oblation, but because of Gods reuealed determination against it, as we shall* hereafter more distinctly heare.
- *§. 27.
Use 1 From this extent of Gods mercy we may well infer, that mans destruction is of himself: 1either because he maliciously despiteth the Spirit of Grace, or wilfully rejecteth the offer of pardon. In the order of redemption God hath made mans sin pardonable, but man by his impenitency makes it not to be pardoned.
Vse 1 From this extent of Gods mercie we may well inferre, that mans destruction is of himselfe: 1either because he malitiously despiteth the Spirit of Grace, or wilfully reiecteth the offer of pardon. In the order of redemption God hath made mans sinne pardonable, but man by his impenitencie makes it not to be pardoned.