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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The comfort is this,1 that the elect are absolutely freed from it, so as they cannot fall into it.
- 1The Elect cannot sin against the holy Ghost.The Elect cannot sinne against the holy Ghost.
The Reasons are evident.
The Reasons are euident.
1 When they come to be enlightened,1 together with their illumination, regeneration is wrought in them. Now they who are borne again, cannot so wholly give up themselves to sin and Satan, as to sin against the Holy⟨p. 626⟩ Ghost. The Apostle (in a more inferior degree and kind of sinning, then in this kind against the Holy Ghost) saith, Whosoever is borne of God doth not commit sin: for his seed remaineth in him, 2and he cannot sin because he is borne again.
1 When they come to bee inlightned,1 together with their illumination, regeneration is wrought in them. Now they who are borne againe, cannot so wholly giue vp themselues to sin and Satan, as to sin against the Holy