A01979:516
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.
2 Where (I say) the Devils fight for heavenly matters,1 matters, my meaning is, not that they desire to get them, but that they endeavour to spoil us of them: so that in this combat the prize propounded to us is heavenly; namely, whether we will serve our Heavenly Father, or the hellish fiend: whether we will let go, or fast hold that heavenly treasure which Christ hath purchased for us, all those heavenly things whereby God is honoured, and our souls are saved.
2 Where (I say) the Diuels fight for heauenly matters,1 matters, my meaning is, not that they desire to get them, but that they endeauour to spoile vs of them: so that in this combate the prize propounded to vs is heauenly; namely, whether we will serue our Heauenly Father, or the hellish feene: whether we will let goe, or fast hold that heauenly treasure which Christ hath purchased for vs, all those heauenly things whereby God is honoured, and our soules are saued.
- 1Non ut ipsi victoriam adepti aliquod consequantur, sed ut nos privent. Chrysost.Non vt ipsi victoriam adepti aliquod consequantur, sed vt nos priuent. Chrysost.
For proof that they be heavenly things which Satan especially aims at, observe those several temptations recorded in the Scripture: I will give a taste of some. aWhat aimed he at in tempting Adam and Eve? was it not to deface Gods Image in them, and to strip them of that happiness wherein God had created them? The issue showeth as much. What sought he in tempting Christ?a was it not to make him doubt whether he were the Son of God or no? yea, and utterly renounce God, and worship the Devil?