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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.
§. 12. How truth of doctrine is assaulted.
This latter point of fast-holding and safe keeping Truth, 1is the rather to be regarded, because the Devil and his instruments (not ignorant, that if this Girdle be wanting, all other pieces of Armour will stand us in no stead) have been in all former ages, and still are busy to get it away from us, sometimes by fair enticements & allurements to draw us from truth of doctrine: on the one side are brought many plausible arguments, agreeable⟨p. 135⟩ to the natural humour and reason of man, (such are most of the arguments which Papists use;) on the other side much trouble & great persecution is raised. If they cannot clean overthrow Truth, yet they will do what they can to adulterate it: witness the Prophets and Apostles times, and every age ever since: I would our age and Country were free from it. Behold how busy Popish Jesuits, Priests and Fryers are: what would they not give? what would they not do, to dispossess us of the Truth of Religion?
THis latter point of fast-holding and safe keeping Truth, 1is the rather to be regarded, because the Diuell and his instruments (not ignorant, that if this Girdle be wanting, all other peeces of Armour will stand vs in no stead) haue beene in all former ages, and still are busie to get it away frō vs, sometimes by faire enticements & allurements to draw vs from truth of doctrine: on the one side are brought many plausible arguments, agreeable⟨p. 135⟩