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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 looks to him as a Propitiation: It hides in his Wounds, as in the clefts of the Rock; it washes the soul in that atoning blood that cleanses from all sin, Hereby the Christian is so strengthened in the Inner man that he can glory in Tribulations, Rom. 5.3. The World persecutes, but he hath peace with God; man hates, but he hath the Love of God in his Heart; Sufferings may come, but they fall only upon the outward man; there is no sting within, nor guilt pressing upon Conscience. When Luther was in fear of an Apoplexy, he cried out, Feri, Domine, feri, paratus sum, quia à peccatis absolutus; strike, Lord, strike, I am ready, because absolved from Sin. A Christian, that is washed from sin in the blood of Jesus, may bear the persecuting stroke; he hath refrigerium Christi, a sweet refreshment from Christ's Atonement in that inward peace, which is made by it in Conscience.
1. Faith looks to him as a Propitiation: It hides in his Wounds, as in the clefts of the Rock; it washes the soul in that atoning blood that cleanses from all sin, Hereby the Christian is so strengthned in the Innerman that he can glory in Tribulations, Rom. 5.3. The World persecutes, but he hath peace with God; man hates, but he hath the Love of God in his Heart; Sufferings may come, but they fall only upon the outward man; there is no sting within, nor guilt pressing upon Conscience. When Luther was in fear of an Apoplexy, he cried out, Feri, Domine, feri, paratus sum, quia à peccatis absolutus; strike, Lord, strike, I am ready, because absolved from Sin. A Christian, that is washed from sin in the blood of Jesus, may bear the persecuting stroke; he hath refrigerium Christi, a sweet refreshment from Christ's Atonement in that inward peace, which is made by it in Conscience.