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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.
§. 19. Of others opinions concerning a mans sincerity.
Object. Esides he laboureth to persuade men that they deceive themselves, in thinking⟨p. 140⟩ they have truth of heart, when they have none, because other men judge not so well of them, as they themselves.
Obiect. Esides hee laboureth to perswade men that they deceiue themselues, in thinking⟨p. 140⟩ they haue truth of heart, when they haue none, because other men iudge not so well of them, as they themselues.
Answ. 1No other man can so well discern the Truth of heart, as a mans own self:l For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of a man which is in him? As other men may judge an hypocrite to be upright, when the hypocrite in his own conscience knoweth himself to be so: so they may judge an upright man to be an hypocrite. But another mans judgement cannot make the hypocrite to be upright: why then should it make an upright man an hypocrite? the hypocrites conscience condemneth him, though all the world acquit him: and the upright mans conscience will uphold him, as Jobs did, though all the world condemn him.