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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.
1. It is God who is the author of grace,1 who as in his nature, so likewise in his properties, is unchangeable: so that the same cause which moved God for to bestow the graces of his Spirit on a man,2 still remaineth in him to make him renew his Spirit, and that is his mercy and goodness, which can no more be turned from his children then the Sun be pulled out of Heaven.3 A cloud may hinder the bright beams of the Sun, yet still it shineth, and will at length break forth: so the beams of Gods kindness by the clouds of our infirmities may be kept from us, but still there remaineth mercy in GOD, which will at length break through those Clouds. For⟨p. 101⟩ whom God once lovetha he loveth unto the end: and in this respect the graces of his holy Spirit are termedb gifts without repentance.
1. It is God who is the author of grace,1 who as in his nature, so likewise in his properties, is vnchangeable: so that the same cause which moued God for to bestow the graces of his Spirit on a man,2 still remaineth in him to make him renew his Spirit, and that is his mercy and goodnes, which can no more be turned from his children then the Sunne be pulled out of Heauen.3 A cloud may hinder the bright beames of the Sunne, yet stil it shineth, and will at length breake forth: so the beames of Gods kindnesse by the cloudes of our infirmities may be kept from vs, but still there remaineth mercy in GOD, which will at length breake through those Cloudes. For⟨p. 101⟩