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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. Of the danger of deferring repentance.
Against the second part of the suggestion,1 we are to know that although whensoever an unrighteous man truly repenteth, he shall be pardoned, yet he cannot truly repent whensoever he will. He that refuseth to turn when God calleth him, provoketh God to give him over to the hardness of his heart. As for such as think to repent at their death, how know they what warning they shall have of their death? May they not suddenly be taken away asg Belshazzar, andh the rich fool? But what if some sickness come before as Deaths harbinger? Surely there is little hope that such as before have not, should then turn unto God: For then commonly is the body weak, the spirits faint, the heart dull, the mind troubled, and the Devil most busy about us: and God hath given no promise to the unrighteous to succour him at that time, but ratheri the contrary.
AGainst the second part of the suggestion,1 wee are to know that although whensoeuer an vnrighteous man truly repenteth, he shall be pardoned, yet he cannot truly repent whensoeuer hee will. Hee that refuseth to turne when God calleth him, prouoketh God to giue him ouer to the hardnesse of his heart. As for such as thinke to repent at their death, how know they what warning they shall haue of their death? May they not suddenly bee taken away as