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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.
2. As they give the highest proof of their Sincerity, so they have the gracious Presence of God in the most eminent way with them: All his glorious Attributes do, as it were, pitch their Tents round about them, and put forth their Virtues in a gracious manner for their good. His Power rests upon them to bear them up, how weak soever, in the fiery Trial; his Wisdom directs them how to carry the selves under the Cross; his Mercy melts over them, while they are under mans Cruelty; his Love is shed abroad in their heart while they bear ⟨p. 143⟩the World hatred: The Presence of God will be to them in stead of, nay, infinitely more than all other Comforts: They may say, If God be for us, who can be against us? Rom. 8.31. Why? Devils can, wicked men can, but, Aquinas expounds the words, Quis contra nos laesive & prevalenter? Who can be against us to hurt us, and prevail over us? That which is of God, cannot be overthrown; they may break out with St. Paul, in that gallant triumph, [Greek or Hebrew] I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other Creature shall be able to separare us from the Love of God in Christ, Rom. 8.38, 39. What St. Bernard saith of the Church, is true of them a noble part of it;1 Nec Verbositate Philosophorum, nec Cavillationibus Haereticorum, nec Gladiis Persecutorum potuit illa Separari à Charitate Dei, quae est in Christo: They cannot be separated from the Love of God in Christ, neither by the words of Philosophers, nor by the Cavils of Heretics, nor yet by the Swords of Persecutors: God is in the midst of them, and they shall not be moved.
2. As they give the highest proof of their Sincerity, so they have the gracious Presence of God in the most eminent way with them: All his glorious Attributes do, as it were, pitch their Tents round about them, and put forth their Virtues in a gracious manner for their good. His Power rests upon them to bear them up, how weak soever, in the fiery Trial; his Wisdom directs them how to carry the selves under the Cross; his Mercy melts over them, while they are under mans Cruelty; his Love is shed abroad in their heart while they bear