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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.
Some restrain this to their malice in particular. Their malicec hath been in part laid forth by discovering their manifold wiles, and shall further be declared on the last clause of this verse. Here I will speak of their wickedness in general, for so I take the extent of this word in this place.
Some restraine this to their malice in particular. Their malicec hath beene in part laide forth by discouering their manifold wiles, and shall further be declared on the last clause of this verse. Here I will speake of their wickednesse in generall, for so I take the extent of this word in this place.
- cVerse 11.
The Devils are extremely evil: they are wholly and only set upon mischief and wickedness:1 Therefore as by a kind of exaggeration they are here called spirits of wickedness, so elsewhere Satan is termed by a kind of propriety athat wicked one. Many attributes in Scripture are given to them, to set forth their wickedness, asb unclean, cevil, foul spirits, with the like.
The Diuels are extreamely euill: they are wholly and onely set vpon mischiefe and wickednesse:1 Therefore as by a kind of exaggeration they are here called spirits of wickednesse, so elsewhere Satan is termed by a kind of proprietie