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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
THE Whole Armour of GOD. › Treatise 1 › Part 3 › Section 8: §. 8. Exposition of words.
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§. 8. Exposition of words.
WE have heard of the Defendants: Who are the challengers and assaulters? they are set down negatively, not flesh and blood. For this particle not, hath reference to this latter clause, as if there were a comma betwixt wrestle and not, thus, we wrestle, not with flesh, &c.
VVE haue heard of the Defendants: Who are the challengers and assaulters? they are set downe negatiuely, not flesh and blood. For this particle not, hath reference to this latter clause, as if there were a comma betwixt wrestle and not, thus, we wrestle, not with flesh, &c.
By flesh and blood, 1are here meant such creatures as have a bodily substance which consisteth of flesh and blood: in which respect man is termeda flesh, and Christ is said to be madeb flesh, because he had a corporal substance: herein ac difference is made betwixt a Spirit, and a body.
By flesh and blood, 1are here meant such creatures as haue a bodily substance which consisteth of flesh and blood: in which respect man is termeda flesh, and Christ is said to be made