A01979:3178
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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To reject the Gospel despitefully, doth make the matter much more desperate: for it implieth an inbred hatred against the Gospel it self, the Word of salvation: whence proceed open blasphemies against God and his Word,⟨p. 601⟩ and fierce and cruel persecuting of the Preachers, and professors of the Gospel.
To reiect the Gospel despitefully, doth make the matter much more desperate: for it implieth an inbred hatred against the Gospell it selfe, the Word of saluation: whence proceed open blasphemies against God and his Word,⟨p. 601⟩ and fierce and cruell persecuting of the Preachers, and professors of the Gospell.
This despitefulness added to rejecting of the Gospel, brings a man into a most fearful and desperate estate: yet all that ascend to this high pitch of impiety, do not simply therein sin against the holy Ghost: for all this may be done on ignorance. Instance Pauls example: he was so zealous of the traditions which the Jews received from their Elders, as he hated the Gospel, which he deemed to be contrary thereunto:1 in which respect, He thought that he ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus: 2and so he did: for out of his inward hatred He breathed out threatenings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord: he did much evil to the Saints: he destroyed them that called on the name of Jesus: he compelled many to blaspheme, 3and waxed mad against the Saints: yea, he himself was a blasphemer. 4But all these he did ignorantly: for a man may hate and blaspheme that which he knoweth not. Great was that despite which many of the Jews showed against Christ, and against Stephen: