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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 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.
- *§. 14. De Absol. cap. 6. can. 9.
Blasphemy being so heinous a sin,1 Magistrates, who are gods on earth, ought to use all the means they can to suppress it: and therefore they ought both to make severe laws against it, & also strictly to look to the due execution of those laws: otherwise the unjust Judges in Ahab's time,2 who condemned innocent Naboth to death, for a mere pretence, and unjust accusation of blasphemy; and the Jews who supposing that Christ blasphemed,3