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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 16: §. 16. Of Satans power in miracles.
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Object. Those Sorcerers wrought some of the miracles which Moses did.
Obiect. Those Sorcer•rs wrought some of the miracles which Moses did.
Ans. 1Though there were some outward likeness and resemblance betwixt some of those things which Moses and the Sorcerers did, as turning rods into Serpents, water into blood, and bringing abundance of frogs; yet in truth there was a very great and main difference betwixt them. There is no doubt but the things which Moses did, were truly and properly miracles: as for the things which the Sorcerers did, either they might be done by natural means, as the Devil might secretly convey Serpents, and blood, and frogs from other places to Egypt: or else the things which they did might be mere illusions, only appearances of things which were not so: and so the Egyptians made to think they saw Serpents, blood, and frogs, when in truth there were no such things: this latter is the more likely, as may be gathered by the circumstances noted in those histories. First for the Serpents, it is said thata Aaron's rod devoured their rods: Evident therefore it is, that Aaron's rod was turned into a true living Serpent, and likely that the Sorcerers rods were not so, because they made no resistance, but were devoured.
Ans. 1Though there were some outward likenesse and resemblance betwixt some of those things which Moses and the Sorcerers did, as turning rods into Serpents, water into blood, and bringing abundance of frogs; yet in truth there was a very great and maine difference betwixt them. There is no doubt but the things which Moses did, were truly and properly miracles: as for the things which the Sorcerers did, either they might be done by naturall meanes, as the Diuell might secretly conueigh Serpents, and blood, and frogs from other places to Egypt: or else the things which they did might be meere illusions, onely appearances of things which were not so: and so the Egyptians made to thinke they saw Serpents, blood, and frogs, when in truth there were no such things: this latter is the more likely, as may be gathered by the circumstances noted in those histories. First for the Serpents, it is said that