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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.
1 Simply, when that which properly belongeth unto him is denied him. Thus because the King of Ashur denied that God was able to save Jerusalem, and to deliver it out of his hands,1 he is said to blaspheme the Lord God of Israel.
1 Simply, when that which properly belongeth vnto him is denied him. Thus because the King of Ashur denied that God was able to saue Ierusalem, and to deliuer it out of his hands,1 hee is said to blaspheme the Lord God of Israel.
2 By consequence, when that which is proper to the Creator, is attributed to the creature: thus the Scribes and Pharisees imagining Christ to be a mere creature,1 and not thinking that he was God, because he took upon him to forgive sins (which is a power proper only unto God) accused him of Blasphemy: and again, the⟨p. 578⟩ Jews went about to stone him for Blasphemy, because (as they allege) he being a man, 2made himself God. Though their censure of Christ were most false and slanderous, yet thereby they plainly show what was accounted blasphemy. But to make this point more clear, the Holy Ghost expressly saith of the Israelites in the wilderness, that they committed great blasphemies, 3because they said of the molten Calf which they set up, This is thy God which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt, whereby they attribute to the Calf, a creature of their own making, that which God the Creator of all things did.