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…

It is not credible that he should suffer for a Christ whom he never yet received, or take up the yoke of the cross when he casts off the yoke of the command; he cannot be saved in his sins, no, not by Christ himself; the atoning blood will not wash him that wallows in those corruptions that are the price of it; Or will he suffer for the Gospel; He turns a deaf car to the Calls; violates the sacred Commands, casts away the precious offers of it, and it is not to be thought, that he will suffer for that Gospel which he so despises. Indeed it would be a very strange thing for him to suffer; in so doing he must part with all this World in which his portion & total sum of happiness lies; he must suffer the spoiling of his goods when he hath no enduring substance in Heaven; be a reproach ⟨p. 37⟩among men when he hath no honour with God; and cast away a temporal life when he hath no title to an eternal one. We see by these things that an unmortified man is not in case to suffer for Christ. Awake therefore O Christian, set upon the work of Mortification; resist inward Corruptions that thou mayest stand against outward temptations, lay holy restraints upon sin that thou mayest bear a Guison for Christ; die unto sin that thou mayest be able to die for the Gospel; set thy heart against every thing of Concupiscence that breaths in thee, that there may be nothing to turn thee aside from the sure Religion; cast out every secret idol out of thine heart, that thou mayest not fall down and worship the outward Idols in the World: Do this work impartially, do not mortify one or two sins, but all: Every indulged Lust is a Traitor in thy bosom, a false Bias upon thy heart, Spare it not. But to give some particular instances labour to mortify the sins following.

It is not credible that he should suffer for a Christ whom he never yet received, or take up the yoke of the cross when he casts off the yoke of the command; he cannot be saved in his sins, no, not by Christ himself; the atoning blood will not wash him that wallows in those corruptions that are the price of it; Or will he suffer for the Gospel; He turns a deaf car to the Calls; violates the sacred Commands, casts away the pretious offers of it, and it is not to be thought, that he will suffer for that Gospel which he so despises. Indeed it would be a very strange thing for him to suffer; in so doing he must part with all this World in which his portion & total sum of happiness lies; he must suffer the spoyling of his goods when he hath no eneuring substance in Heaven; be a reproach