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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.
§. 28. Of the nature of the Saints affliction.
2 For the second;1 the afflictions which befall the righteous, are called chastisements, and corrections, even such as tender Parents lay upon their dear children; to show that the nature of them is altered, the sting is pulled out, the curse is removed; so that although the original ground of all afflictions was sin, and they first i• vengeance executed for sin, yet now inflicted on th• Saints, they are not vindictive for revenge, but rather medicinable for Physic: for Christ hath paid the ful• ⟨p. 193⟩price and ransom for all our sins, he hath endured the full punishment for them, and left nothing to be by way of expiation endured of us.
2 FOr the second;1 the afflictions which befall the righteous, are called chastisements, and corrections, euen such as tender Parents lay vpon their deare children; to shew that the nature of them is altered, the sting is pulled out, the curse is remoued; so that although the originall ground of all afflictions was sinne, and they first i• vengeance executed for sinne, yet now inflicted on th• Saints, they are not vindict•ue for reuenge, but rathe• medicinable for Physicke: for Christ hath paid the ful•