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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.
The time against which the forenamed Armour is prepared is next to be handled. It is here termedb the evil day. By evil is meant not so much sin as trouble: and day is put for any continuance of time. Some take evil day for the whole time of a mans life, yea for the continuance of this World, all which time Satan assaulteth us, but no longer.
THe time against which the forenamed Armour is prepared is next to bee handled. It is here termedb the euill day. By euill is meant not so much sinne as trouble: and day is put for any continuance of time. Some take euill day for the whole time of a mans life, yea for the continuance of this World, all which time Satan assaulteth vs, but no longer.
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This I take to be too large an extent of this phrase, for in the original there is to each word adjoined an article, that day, that evil day, which implieth some set and distinct time; wherefore other restrain it to the day of a mans death: but that I take to be too strict a restraint: there are many other days and times wherein use is to be made of Armour. Wherefore in the mean betwixt both, I expound the evil day to be that time wherein Satan shall any way set upon us and assault us, whether by outward afflictions, or otherwise. All his temptations tend to evil; and therefore the time wherein he assaulteth us may well be termed an evil day.
This I take to be too large an extent of this phrase, for in the originall there is to each word adioined an article, that day, that euill day, which implieth some set and distinct time; wherefore other restraine it to the day of a mans death: but that I take to be too strict a restraint: there are many other daies and times wherein vse is to be made of Armour. Wherefore in the meane betwixt both, I expound the euill day to bee that time wherein Satan shall any way set vpon vs and assault vs, whether by outward afflictions, or otherwise. All his temptations tend to euil; and therefore the time wherein he assaulteth vs may well be termed an euill day.