A01979:3156
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 Object, against which in special this sin is directed and committed, is the Holy Ghost. And in this respect Saint Matthew calleth it the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost: not as if it were in the Holy Ghost, which is blasphemy to think, but because (as the other phrases do expressly declare) it is against the Holy Ghost. In this sense this kind of phrase is oft used: for where it said that Christ gave his Disciples power against unclean spirits (as it is well translated according to the meaning of the phrase) word for word it is in the original Power of unclean spirits. 1This I have the rather noted,2 to mollify the phrase of some, who speaking, preaching and writing of this sin, stile it The sin of the Holy Ghost: which speech being well taken (the Holy Ghost being conceived to be not the subject, but the Object thereof) it may safely be used.
The Obiect, against which in speciall this sinne is directed and committed, is the Holy Ghost. And in this respect Saint Matthew calleth it the blasphemie of the Holy Ghost: not as if it were in the Holy Ghost, which is blasphemie to thinke, but because (as the other phrases doe expresly declare) it is against the Holy Ghost. In this sence this kinde of phrase is oft vsed: for where it said that Christ gaue his Disciples power against vncleane spirits (as it is well translated according to the meaning of the phrase) word for word it is in the originall Power of vncleane spirits. 1This I haue the rather noted,2 to mollifie the phrase of some, who speaking, preaching and writing of this sinne, stile it The sinne of the Holy Ghost: which speech being well taken (the Holy Ghost being conceiued to bee not the subiect, but the Obiect thereof) it may safely bee vsed.
- 1Matth. 10. 1.
- 2