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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.
§. 5. Of that Peace which the Gospel causeth.
The Peace here spoken of,1 is our reconciliation with God. In the beginning God made man after his own Image, by virtue whereof, there was a sweet harmony and concord betwixt God and man; God having revealed unto man what was his good will, pleasing and acceptable unto him; man being both able, and also willing to do that which was acceptable to God. But long this Peace did not last: it was soon broken, and that wholly, and only through mans default. For man wittingly sinned against his Creator, and thereby justly provoked his wrath: thus came enmity betwixt God and man. Such a breach was made by mans rebellion, that all creatures in Heaven and earth were not able to make it up. Christ therefore, the eternal, true, natural, proper, only begotten Son of God, took upon him to be a Mediator betwixt God and man. He satisfied his Fathers Justice, pacified his wrath, procured his favour towards man, whereby God was moved to offer reconciliation unto man;2 withal he gave unto man his sanctifying Spirit, to breed faith in him, that thereby man might receive and embrace this reconciliation. In this respect God is called the God of Peace (Rom. 16. 20.) and Christ our Peace, (chap. 2. 14.) Prince of Peace (Isa. 9. 6.) And God is said in Christ to reconcile the world unto himself, ⟨p. 167⟩(