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…

2. Faith fixes upon his Power. When Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were threatened with a fiery Furnace for not worshipping the Golden Image, their answer ⟨p. 60⟩was, Our God is able to deliver us, Dan. 3.17. Persecutors may be strong, but Faith assures the Soul that God is much stronger, and can deliver his People; nay, and will do it also; not, as those three Worthies were, in a visible manner, yet in an invisible one: Suffering Saints, have ever found by experience that the Power of God hath bore them up in their Sufferings. When Coelocerius, in the Persecution under the Emperor Adrian, saw the supports and patience that Faustina & Jobita had in their sufferings for Christ, he cried out, Vere magnus Deus Christianorum; the God of the Christians is truly great. When Justin Martyr saw the Martyrs cheerfully dying for their Religion, he thereupon fell off from Plato's School to Christ: St. Paul the great experienced Sufferer, exhorts Timothy to be partaker of the Afflictions of the Gospel, according to the power of God, 2 Tim. 1.8. that is he should suffer not in his own power, but in God's. Think thus with thy self, O Christian, God can and will give such internal Supports and Comforts as shall more then counterpoise all thy Sufferings for him: Fix thy Faith upon his Power, and thou canst not fail in the Trial.

2. Faith fixes upon his Power. When Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were threatned with a fiery Furnace for not worshipping the Golden Image, their answer ⟨p. 60⟩was, Our God is able to deliver us, Dan. 3.17. Persecutors may be strong, but Faith assures the Soul that God is much stronger, and can deliver his People; nay, and will do it also; not, as those three Worthies were, in a visible manner, yet in an invisible one: Suffering Saints, have ever found by experience that the Power of God hath bore them up in their Sufferings. When Coelocerius, in the Persecution under the Emperor Adrian, saw the supports and patience that Faustina & Jobita had in their sufferings for Christ, he cried out, Vere magnus Deus Christianorum; the God of the Christians is truly great. When Justin Martyr saw the Martyrs cheerfully dying for their Religion, he thereupon fell off from Plato's School to Christ: St. Paul the great experienced Sufferer, exhorts Timothy to be partaker of the Afflictions of the Gospel, according to the power of God,