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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.
1. Patience may be considered in that which it doth with respect to the Christian in whom it is; and thus three things may be noted.
1. Patience makes a Christian possess his soul, Luke 21.19. there is a great difference between the worldly mans patience & the Christians: The word by man endeavours much that he may possess the things that are without him, but the Christian bears that he may possess his own Soul. The Christian, in a fit of Impatience, loses ⟨p. 124⟩himself, and puts himself, as it were, out of possession, not only of his Rational Faculties, but of his Graces too; at that time he acts not like a Man or a Christian. When Jonah told God, that he did well to be angry unto death, Jon. 4.9. he was in his furious passion, more like a Beast than a Man or a Saint. If thou deal thus with me, (saith Moses to God) kill me out of hand, Numb. 11.15. The word (thou) here is of the Feminine Gender, At for Aita; the perturbation of Mind. made Moses, the meekest man on earth, unable to fill up his words, or to speak as he meant to do. It is by patience that the Christian possesseth himself, and hath the free use of his Reason and holy Graces: While he is patiently bearing the Cross, his Faith will roll out as Gold out of the Fire, his hope will fix itself in the unmovable Heavens, his love will burn within him towards God and his Glory. All the Powers in Earth and Hell cannot put him out of the possession of himself, or hinder his Graces from coming forth into act; he will be like himself in his suffering.
1. Patience makes a Christian possess his soul, Luke 21.19. there is a great difference between the wordly mans patience & the Christians: The word by man endeavours much that he may possess the things that are without him, but the Christian bears that he may possess his own Soul. The Christian, in a fit of Impatience, loses