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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 14: §. 14. Of the necessity of Patience.
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§. 14. Of the necessity of Patience.
The point then being so clear,1 that of necessity many troubles must be passed through, before we come to our heavenly rest, it necessarily followeth, that of necessity we must be shod and fenced with patience. The want of this grace hath been the cause that many, who for a while have made an hot onset in the Christian battle, at length (when they felt the hard and rough way wherein they marched, and when they found themselves galled and pricked with the troubles which they have met withal) have fallen away, and refused to go on any further in their Christian course:i as they which forsook Saint Paul.
THe point then being so cleare,1 that of necessity many troubles must be passed thorow, before wee come to our heauenly rest, it necessarily followeth, that of necessity we must be shod and fenced with patience. The want of this grace hath beene the cause that many, who for a while haue made an hot onset in the Christian battell, at length (when they felt the hard and rough way wherein they marched, and when they found themselues galled and pricked with the troubles which they haue met withall) haue fallen away, and refused to goe on any further in their Christian course:i as they which forsooke Saint Paul.
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