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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 It is no good consequence from a negative to infer the contrary affirmative. What if Christ had said that Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven, neither on earth, nor in hell; would it from thence follow that some sins may be forgiven in hell?
6 It is no good consequence from a negatiue to inferre the contrary affirmatiue. What if Christ had said that Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall neuer be forgiuen, neither on earth, nor in hell; would it from thence follow that some sinnes may be forgiuen in hell?
7 Christ comparing this sin which shall not be forgiven in this world, or in the world to come, with blasphemy against the Son of Man, by the consequence which they infer, it would follow that blasphemy against the Son may be forgiven in the world to come; which is directly against their own principles: for all blasphemy is a mortal sin; but they say* that Purgatory is only for them who die in venial sins.
7 Christ comparing this sinne which shall not be forgiuen in this world, or in the world to come, with blasphemy against the Sonne of Man, by the consequence which they inferre, it would follow that blasphemy against the Sonne may be forgiuen in the world to come; which is directly against their owne principles: for all blasphemy is a mortall sinne; but they say* that Purgatory is onely for them who die in veniall sinnes.
- *Purgatorium projis tantum est qui cum venialibus culpis moriuntur. Bellar. de Purg. lib. 2. cap. 1.