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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. Faith hath a respect to God; it makes its approaches to him, nay, it fixes the the Soul in him as in its Centre. Hence it is that the righteous fears no evil tidings, because his Heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord, Psal. 112.7. The word rolls about, but he by faith stands fast in the unmoveable God. Hence it is that the Church becomes unmoveable too. God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved, Psal. 46.5. There are three things in God which Faith fixes upon in order to pious Suffering.
1. Faith hath a respect to God; it makes its approaches to him, nay, it fixes the the Soul in him as in its Center. Hence it is that the righteous fears no evil tidings, because his Heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord, Psal. 112.7. The word rowles about, but he by faith stands fast in the unmoveable God. Hence it is that the Church becomes unmoveable too. God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved, Psal. 46.5. There are three things in God which Faith fixes upon in order to pious Suffering.
1. Faith fixes upon his Providence. The Stoic could say, That there was no living in a World empty of God and Providence: Much more may the Christian that is tossed ⟨p. 58⟩up and down in a persecuting World, say so. But his Faith tells him, that persecution comes not by Chance, Man rages, but God reigns: The World is as a tempestuous Sea, but God sits at the Sterne and governs all: He limits the fury of Persecutors; the wrath of man shall praise him; the remainder of wrath, (or as it is in the original) the remainder of wraths he will restrain