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Armatura Dei, or, A preparation for suffering in an evil day showing how Christians…Armatura Dei, or, A preparation for suffering in an evil day shewing how Christians…
Armatura Dei, or, A preparation for suffering in an evil day showing how Christians are to bear sufferings, and what graces are requisite thereunto : suited for all good Christians in this present time / by Edward Polhil ..., Esq.Armatura Dei, or, A preparation for suffering in an evil day shewing how Christians are to bear sufferings, and what graces are requisite thereunto : suited for all good Christians in this present time / by Edward Polhil ..., Esq.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1682
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.
CHAP. I.
Persecution will come on good men. This World is mixed of Comforts and Sorrows. The old enmity will persecute. Corruption in Saints will show it self inwardly and outwardly. The Church is heir to the Cross. God orders Sufferings for good. Things abroad and at home admonish us.
Persecution will come on good men. This World is mixt of Comforts and Sorrows. The old enmity will persecute. Corruption in Saints will shew it self inwardly and outwardly. The Church is heir to the Cross. God orders Sufferings for good. Things abroad and at home admonish us.
One Apostle tells us. That all that will live Godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer Persecution. Another acquaints us, That this is no strange thing; A third wishes us, not to marvel at the Worlds hatred. Its true, the Sufferings ⟨p. 2⟩of good men have been an old Stumbling-block. Pompey complained, that Providence was very dark: The Poet was ready to think that there were no Gods: Nay, the holy Psalmist cried out, I have cleansed my heart in vain; as if Religion were to no purpose: Yet, if we consider all, those Sufferings are not to be wondered at.
ONe Apostle tells us. That all that will live Godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer Persecution. Another acquaints us, That this is no strange thing; A third wishes us, not to marvel at the Worlds hatred. Its true, the Sufferings