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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.
3. Love to God stands in an holy Complacence in him; it makes the Soul rest upon him as Noah's Dove did upon the Ark, and Centre in him as in the supreme Good. Holy desires end in inward satisfaction; David thirsting after God comes to have his soul satisfied as with marrow and fatness, Psal. 63.5. And Christians that breathe after him, come to have sweet spiritual joys and delights, tastes of Heaven and drops from the pure rivers of pleasures that are above: These are able to sweeten ⟨p. 72⟩the bitterest sufferings. It is said of the Thessalonians, that they received the word in much affliction with joy of the holy Ghost. 1 Thessal. 1.6. The Gospel doth not go alone, but Affliction accompanies it; neither will affliction go down alone, but the joy of the holy Ghost sweetens it: The blessed Martyrs have experimentally found these divine joys in their hearts. It is said of Alexander the Martyr,1 famous for his Love to God, that ne ingemuit, he did not so much as fetch a groan in the midst of his Torments; and doubtless he had strong consolations within to bear him up in his Sufferings. The Martyr Algerius being in prison wrote thus; in the dark Dungeon I find a Paradise of Pleasure; in a place of sorrow dwells tranquillity; in an Infernal Cave I have joy of Soul: O how good is the Lord! How easy and sweet his yoke! Such Heavenly Cordials will bare up Christians in the greatest trials: O let us labour to delight our souls in God, that we may be able to suffer for him.
3. Love to God stands in an holy Complacence in him; it makes the Soul rest upon him as Noah's Dove did upon the Ark, and Center in him as in the supream Good. Holy desires end in inward satisfaction; David thirsting after God comes to have his soul satisfied as with marrow and fatness, Psal. 63.5. And Christians that breathe after him, come to have sweet spiritual joys and delights, tasts of Heaven and drops from the pure rivers of pleasures that are above: These are able to sweeten ⟨p. 72⟩