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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.
The Seventh Direction for Suffering is holy Fear; not the Fear of man, but of God; not a diffidential Fear, but a fiducial one; not a servile Fear, but a filial one: Holy Fear looks at Sin more then at suffering; at Sufferings in Hell more then at those on Earth; at Spiritual and Eternal losses more then at Carnal and Temporal.
The Seventh Direction is this, if we would be in a fit posture for suffering we must get an holy Fear in our hearts. The wise Solomon begins his Proverbs with this; The fear of the Lord is the beginning or head of Knowledge, Prov 1.7. and ends his Ecclesiastes with this, That to fear God and keep his Commandments is the whole duty of Man, Eccl. 12.13. Other things appertain to the Beast or the Devil, but holy Fear is the All of man; it makes him a perfect man, not only to do Gods Will, but to suffer under it. In speaking to this I shall first consider what that Fear is which prepares us for Suffering, and then how it prepares us thereunto.
THe Seventh Direction is this, if we would be in a fit posture for suffering we must get an holy Fear in our hearts. The wise Solomon begins his Proverbs with this; The fear of the Lord is the beginning or head of Knowledge, Prov 1.7. and ends his Ecclesiastes with this, That to fear God and keep his Commandments is the whole duty of Man, Eccl. 12.13. Other things appertain to the Beast or the Devil, but holy Fear is the All of man; it makes him a perfect man, not only to do Gods Will, but to suffer under it. In speaking to this I shall first consider what that Fear is which prepares us for Suffering, and then how it prepares us thereunto.