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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.
2. Love to God stands in holy D sires after him; it makes the soul pant after him; as the heart panteth after the Water brooks, 1and go out of itself in holy anhelations after union with him: Such is the Heavenly property of it, that it aspires to be one Spirit with him, to have idem Veil and idem Nolle, to will as he wills, and nill as he nills; and when once our Wills are melted into his; every thing that comes from him will be welcome to us. Though Flesh and Blood may cry out of Suffering, as a very hard thing, yet Love will say, that nothing can be wiser or better then that which our Father orders and lays out ⟨p. 71⟩for us. If desire after God as the supreme good once put our Souls into motion, we shall follow him not into Ordinances only, but into Sufferings also: His gracious Presence is in both; In Ordinances it is in a good measure, but in Sufferings, which are the highest Services on Earth, it is in a more eminent manner. God doth not barely say to his afflicted people, I am with thee; but I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my Righteousness; Isaiah. 41.10. many words are heaped up together to impart the excellency of his presence with them. O let our hearts burn within us with ardent desires after him, that we may be able to bear the fiery Trial at its coming.
2. Love to God stands in holy D sires after him; it makes the soul pant after him; as the heart panteth after the Waterbrooks, 1and go out of itself in holy anhelations after union with him: Such is the Heavenly property of it, that it aspires to be one Spirit with him, to have idem Velle and idem Nolle, to will as he wills, and nill as he nills; and when once our Wills are melted into his; every thing that comes from him will be welcome to us. Though Flesh and Blood may cry out of Suffering, as a very hard thing, yet Love will say, that nothing can be wiser or better then that which our Father orders and laies out ⟨p. 71⟩for us. If desire after God as the supream good once put our Souls into motion, we shall follow him not into Ordinances only, but into Sufferings also: His gratious Presence is in both; In Ordinances it is in a good measure, but in Sufferings, which are the highest Services on Earth, it is in a more eminent manner. God doth not barely say to his afflicted people, I am with thee; but I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my Righteousness;