A01979:3083
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.
Yea, many of their public Prayers are also in the highest kind blasphemous against Christ, as where they pray to Christ to bring them to his Father through the intercession and merits of Peter, Paul, Thomas, Nicholas, Gregory, and other whom they account Saints: and where they pray to the Virgin Mary to use her motherly authority over her Son, and to command him to do this, and that.
Yea, many of their publike Prayers are also in the highest kinde blasphemous against Christ, as where they pray to Christ to bring them to his Father through the intercession and merits of Peter, Paul, Thomas, Nicholas, Gregorie, and other whom they account Saints: and where they pray to the Virgin Mary to vse her motherly authoritie ouer her Sonne, and to command him to doe this, and that.
The power of Absolution which they give not only to the Pope, but also to every Priest, is blasphemous: for *by the Council of Trent it is decreed, not to be a ministerial declaration, but a judicial act of forgiving. The conceit of offering up Christs glorified body by the hands of a Priest, is also blasphemous: and so is the new Jesuitical invention of mixing the milk of the Virgin Mary with the blood of Christ. These and such like blasphemies cannot proceed but from the Imps of Antichrist.
The power of Absolution which they giue not onely to the Pope, but also to euery Priest, is blasphemous: for *by the Councell of Trent it is decreed, not to be a ministeriall declaration, but a iudiciall act of forgiuing. The conceit of offering vp Christs glorified body by the hands of a Priest, is also blasphemous: and so is the new Iesuiticall inuention of mixing the milke of the Virgin Mary with the blood of Christ. These and such like blasphemies cannot proceed but from the Impes of Antichrist.
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