A01979:552
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.
§. 5. Of the repair of Grace.
§. 5. Of the repaire of Grace.
From the second I gather that,
FRom the second I gather that,
The graces which are decayed in us, 1or seem to be lost, may be resumed and recovered. Thus much intimateth Christ unto Peter, saying,c When thou art converted, &c. This cannot be meant of his first conversion, which long before was wrought in him, but of his recovery. The Prophets oft call upon Gods people, who had made themselves naked, and fallen off from their Lord and Captain the Lord God, to return again unto him. Very express and direct for this purpose is thef charge of Christ to Ephesus, Remember from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works. 4Was it not the recovery of grace which David so earnestly prayed for? In faith he prayed, and was heard.