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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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3 Duly weigh the difference betwixt Christ and the world;1 how Christ can uphold thee, and preserve, and protect and prosper thee against the world: but all the world cannot shelter thee from his wrath. True knowledge of Christ, of the benefits we reap by him, of the privileges we have in him, of the comfort and peace we receive through him,2 will make us account all the things of this world, in comparison of Christ, but as dung: and it will make us also stand the more resolutely against all the assaults of the world, and not suffer our selves thereby to be drawn from Christ. Let us oft call to mind that which Christ hath said to this purpose,3 What is a man profited if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall be give in exchange for his soul?
3 Duely weigh the difference betwixt Christ and the world;1 how Christ can vphold thee, and preserue, and protect and prosper thee against the world: but all the world cannot shelter thee from his warth. True knowledge of Christ, of the benefits wee reape by him, of the priuiledges we haue in him, of the comfort and peace we receiue through him,2 will make vs account all the things of this world, in comparison of Christ, but as dung: and it will make vs also stand the more resolutely against all the assaults of the world, and not suffer our selues thereby to be drawne from Christ. Let vs oft call to minde that which Christ hath said to this purpose,3 What is a man profited if he gaine the whole world, and lose his owne soule? or what shall be giue in exchange for his soule?
- 13 Consides the gain which cometh by holding Christ.3 Consides the gaine which commeth by holding Christ.