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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.
I Will therefore first lay down some motives to stir up in us a desire of truth, and then some directions, to instruct us how to get it.
I Will therefore first lay downe some motiues to stirre vp in vs a desire of truth, and then some directions, to instruct vs how to get it.
For the first, note the excellency: 2. The necessity: 3. The benefits of truth.
1 Excellent must that needs be,1 which maketh us like to God: but nothing can make us more like to him then truth: for he is thea Lord God of truth, bhis Son is truth, chis holy Spirit the Spirit of truth, dhis word, the word of truth; ehis promises, commandments, judgements, ways, works, all truth. Herein do the glorious Angels and Saints resemble God,f whom to imitate is an excellent thing:g most contrary is the Devil, and all that bear his image.