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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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§. 6. The danger of a Christians combat.
§. 6. The danger of a Christians combate.
Our spiritual war is a sore, fierce and dangerous war. 1It is a kind of combat which will try our prowess and courage,2 whereby proof will soon be made whether our armour be armour of proof or not, or whether we have put on this whole armour.d The truth of this was manifested in Christ our head, whom the devil hurried from wilderness to pinnacle, from pinnacle to mountain: what the devil⟨p. 50⟩ did to Christ outwardly, and visibly, he useth to do to others inwardly and secretly. The estate and condition of Christ while he lived on earth, is a lively representation of the estate and condition of his Church in this world. aPeter felt such a wrestling, so didb Paul, so do all that slavishly yield not themselves to the power of the Devil.
OVr spirituall war is a sore, fierce and dangerous war. 1It is a kinde of combate which will trie our prowesse and courage,2 wherby proofe will soone be made whether our armor be armor of proofe or not, or whether we haue put on this whole armour.d