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…

1. Love to him stands in an high valuation of him; it esteems him to be such an one as he is set forth in Scripture: To be the only wise God, the only Potentate, the only One that is good; to be all these essentially, fontally, supereminently: He, that hath such an estimate of him, will be ready to suffer for him: To such an one it is folly to learn the only Wise, weakness to leave the only Potentate, misery to leave the only Good; And how can he leave so excellent an Object? to such an one it is prudence to adhere to the only Wise, strength to adhere to the only Potentate, happiness to adhere to the only Good; And how can he choose but adhere to him? It was the saying of an Ancient,¹ Tum dignè Deum aestimamus cum inaestimabilem dicimus; then we rightly esteem God, when we account him inestimable. Estates, Bodies, Lives may be valued, but he is infinitely beyond all estimation: All creatures are ⟨p. 70⟩but as shadows, and little drops of being in comparison of him; It is a just debt we owe to him, to rate him incomparably above all things, and in so doing the Soul it self is ennobled and made fit to suffer for him: As a man by valuing the World above itself, becomes base and brutish, and like the Beasts that perish; so a man by estimating God above all things, becomes heroical and Divine, and like the Angels that live altogether upon him: Such an one is able to part with life in the Channel, to have it in the Fountain; to let go all other things, to have all in the one All-sufficient God.

1. Love to him stands in an high valuation of him; it esteems him to be such an one as he is set forth in Scripture: To be the only wise God, the only Potentate, the only One that is good; to be all these essentially, fontally, supereminently: He, that hath such an estimate of him, will be ready to suffer for him: To such an one it is folly to learn the only Wise, weakness to leave the only Potentate, misery to leave the only Good; And how can he leave so excellent an Object? to such an one it is prudence to adhere to the only Wise, strength to adhere to the only Potentate, happiness to adhere to the only Good; And how can he chuse but adhere to him? It was the saying of an Ancient,¹ Tum dignè Deum aestimamus cum inaestimabilem dicimus; then we rightly esteem God, when we account him inestimable. Estates, Bodies, Lives may be valued, but he is infinitely beyond all estimation: All creatures are