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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. VI.
The third Direction for Suffering is the Knowledge of God. An ignorant man is not capable of suffering; neither will every knowledge serve the turn. The Knowledge, that prepares for Suffering, must be a well-rooted, a right estimating, a tasting or savouring, a practical or operative Knowledge.
The third Direction for Suffering is the Knowledg of God. An ignorant man is not capable of suffering; neither will every knowledge serve the turn. The Knowledge, that prepares for Suffering, must be a well-rooted, a right estimating, a tasting or savouring, a practical or operative Knowledge.
The third Direction for suffering is this, if we would be in a fit posture for suffering we must labour after the knowledge of God and the things of God: An ignorant man, who is a man in shape, but a beast in heart, is not a person capable of pious Suffering; He knows not the Principles of Religion, and for what should he suffer? He hath no Principles of Grace in him, and how should he suffer? He is in darkness, and to him Truth or Error, one God or more, pure Worship or Idolatry, are all one; he is alienated from the life of God, Eph. 4.18. and therefore it is not imaginable that he should dye for God or his Truth: For him to suffer for an unknown God or Christ, is to suffer for he knows not what. As ⟨p. 46⟩the Samaritans worshipped they knew not what; so the ignorant man, if he suffer, suffers for he knows not what. The Athenians had an Altar to the unknown God, Acts. 17.23. and possibly they offered up other Creatures to him: But for a man to offer up himself as a Sacrifice to an unknown God, and to part with all this World when he knows nothing of a better, is a very strange unaccountable thing. Let us therefore cry after Wisdom, and lift up our voice for Understanding: Let us seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid Treasures, as the Wise man exhorts