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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
THE Whole Armour of GOD. › Treatise 2 › Part 5 › Section 9: §. 9. Of the false grounds of Patience.
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1 It is no part of manhood, but mere childishness and cowardliness to be impatient.
1 It is no part of manhood, but meere childishnesse and cowardlinesse to be impatient.
2 Sorrow, mourning, all impatience, and the like, may much aggravate our troubles, but can no way ease them or take them away.
2 Sorrow, mourning, all impatiency, and the like, may much aggrauate our troubles, but can no way ease them or take them away.
3 Others are subject to troubles: it is a common condition of mankind.
3 Others are subiect to troubles: it is a common condition of mankinde.
4 There is an inevitable necessity, or (to use the words and phrase) a fatal destiny, they cannot be avoided.
4 There is an ineuitable necessity, or (to vse the words and phrase) a fatall destiny, they cannot be auoided.