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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.
§. 17. Of the pretended wearisomeness of Sincerity.
§. 17. Of the pretended wearisomnesse of Sincerity.
Object. 2. Again, he suggesteth that it is a wearisome thing to keep the Girdle of Truth always close unto us. None can hold out, the most upright have fallen away, as Demas and others.
Obiect. 2. AGaine, he suggesteth that it is a wearisome thing to keep the Girdle of Truth alwayes close vnto vs. None can hold out, the most vpright haue fallen away, as Demas and others.
Answ. 1It seemeth wearisome only to those who never felt it, never knew it. I may say of it, asf Christ of his yoke, It is easy and light. Yea, it is sweet and pleasant to him that indeed tasted of it. As for those which have fallen, they never had a grain of Truth in their hearts: all the show they made, was only a show:g They fell because they had no Truth in them. Had they been upright,4 they would have continued so,