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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.
It was the saying of Anselm, That if Sin were set before him on one hand, and Hell on the other, he would rather choose Hell then sin. 1Henry Flander, being a Prisoner for the Protestant Religion, would not say, that his Wife was his Whore, no, not to save his life offered to him on those terms. Holy Fear will tell us, that sin must not be done to avoid suffering; that we were better bear all reproaches then dishonour God; lose our Estates then leave our Religion; ⟨p. 96⟩nay, and lay down our lives then be separated from the Divine Love. O let us look upon sin as the Maximum formidabile; as that which hath in it the most proper cause of fear and flight, that no external miseries and dangers may be able to drive us into it.
It was the saying of Anselm, That if Sin were set before him on one hand, and Hell on the other, he would rather chuse Hell then sin. 1Henry Flander, being a Prisoner for the Protestant Religion, would not say, that his Wife was his Whore, no, not to save his life offered to him on those terms. Holy Fear will tell us, that sin must not be done to avoid suffering; that we were better bear all reproaches then dishonour God; lose our Estates then leave our Religion; ⟨p. 96⟩nay, and lay down our lives then be separated from the Divine Love. O let us look upon sin as the Maximum formidabile; as that which hath in it the most proper cause of fear and flight, that no external miseries and dangers may be able to drive us into it.
- 1Scult. Decad. An. Dom. 1528
2. Holy Fear looks at the sufferings which God inflicts in Hell, as incomparably greater then those which man doth or can inflict upon Earth. Our Saviour directing our fear to its right Object, takes notice of the vast difference between them, Fear not them, which kill the body, but are not able to kill he soul; but rather fear him, which is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell,