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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. XII.
The ninth Direction for Suffering is Active Obedience to the will of God; it flows from a good and honest heart; it respects Gods will and Glory; it makes us to grow up into Christ, and to be allied to him; it increases Grace and spiritual strength; it obtains the gracious Presence of God, and it is the way to Heaven.
The ninth Direction for Suffering is Active Obedience to the will of God; it flows from a good and honest heart; it respects Gods will and Glory; it makes us to grow up into Christ, and to be allied to him; it encreases Grace and spiritual strength; it obtains the gracious Presence of God, and it is the way to Heaven.
The ninth Direction is this; if we would be in a fit posture for Suffering, we must labour after an Active Obedience to the Will of God; to do in a right manner as he would have us to do. It is a notable saying of the Rabbins, Marces praeceptum praecepti; one Precept is the reward of another: He that rightly observes one Precept, shall have in the name of a reward such Grace from God, as shall enable ⟨p. 112⟩him to do another and a more difficult Command. It is an excellent thing to enure our selves to the doing of Gods will; Obedience is the chain about the Spouses neck, Cant. 4.9. one link hangs upon another; one piece of Obedience draws on another; Active Obedience will prepare us for passive; the doing of Gods Will, will dispose us for the Suffering of it. The Apostle prays for the Colossians first, that they might walk worthy of the Lord, unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work; and then in the next Verse, that they might be strengthened with all might according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long suffering with joyfulness,