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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
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§. 24. Answer to Satan's suggestion against the benefit of Patience.
§. 24. Answer to Satans suggestion against the benefit of Patience.
Suggest. 2. All the patience in the world can neither prevent,1 nor remove the least cross that falleth on man. In what steed then will this furniture stand him?
Suggest. 2. ALl the patience in the world can neither preuent,1 nor remoue the least crosse that falleth on man. In what steed then wil this furniture stand him?
- 1In what steed can patience stand us?In what steed can patience stand vs?
Answ. 1Though it were granted that patience could neither prevent, nor remove any cross, yet will it stand us in very great steed.2 For (to follow the metaphor) we know that though shoes and greaves make not the way plain without stones, stubs and thorns; yet they make a man better able to tread on them, and pass through, or over them, and keep his legs or feet from being galled or pricked. So patience enableth us well to bear al troubles, and with some quietness to pass them over, and it keepeth the soul from being pierced: