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. ...
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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. ...
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Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
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At London :: Printed by Iohn Beale,
1619.
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Spiritual life -- Modern period, 1500-.
Sin, Unpardonable -- Early works to 1800.
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"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. ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01979.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2025.
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§. 5. Of getting truth.
[Point 3] THe account which wee are to make of this spirituall belt is declared byn 1.1Solomon,* 1.2 who exhorteth to buy the truth, and not sell it. This aduice concerneth two sorts of men, 1. Such as haue it not: they must labour to get it: 2. Such as haue it, they must hold it fast. That this dire∣ction may bee the better applied, wee are well to search whether we haue this girdle of verity or no. Fitly may I apply that to truth, whicho 1.3 the Apostle speaketh of faith;
Examine your selues whether yee haue truth, proue your selues. There is no grace which maketh a more sensible difference betwixt the children of God and of the Diuel, then truth. In this examination we must proceed in order.