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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.
Our Saviour Christ will at the great day bid those that did not feed, cloth, and Visit him in his Members, depart into ever lasting fire, ⟨p. 141⟩Matth. 25.41. much more will he say so to those that Imprison, torment, and kill him in his Members. When Henry the second of France, in his running a Tilt, received a fatal wound in his Eye, he looked to the Prison,1 where the poor Protestants were shut up as Captives for their Religion and often uttered these words, That he was afraid, that he had done the poor innocent men wrong: Conscience then told him, what it was to persecute. Oh! That such things as these might stop Persecutors in their bloody ways, as the Thunderbolt falling near the Emperor Anrelianus did him in his intended Persecution of the Christians: The patience of those, that suffer under their cruel hands, tell them, that the wrath of God will fall upon them at Last. I conclude with that of St. Cyprian, 2Quanto major persecutio, tanto gravior pro persecution vindicta, The greater the Persecution is, the heavier will be the Vengeance for it.
Our Saviour Christ will at the great day bid those that did not feed, cloth, and Visit him in his Members, depart into ever lasting fire, ⟨p. 141⟩Matth. 25.41. much more will he say so to those that Imprison, torment, and kill him in his Members. When Henry the second of France, in his running a Tilt, received a fatal wound in his Eye, he looked to the Prison,1 where the poor Protestants were shut up as Captives for their Religion and often uttered these words, That he was afraid, that he had done the poor innocent men wrong: Conscience then told him, what it was to persecute. Oh! That such things as these might stop Persecutors in their bloody ways, as the Thunderbolt falling neer the Emperor Anrelianus did him in his intended Persecution of the Christians: The patience of those, that suffer under their cruel hands, tell them, that the wrath of God will fall upon them at Last. I conclude with that of St. Cyprian,