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Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…
Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part of the 14 : the second, The righteous man's refuge in the evil day, from Isaiah 26, verse 20 / by John Flavell.
London: printed by H.H. for Robert Boulter, 1682
A PRACTICAL TREATISE OF Fear, &c. › Chapter 7 › Section 6 › Answer.
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.
Answer.
1. Cannot you distrust your own strength and ability, but you must also limit Gods? What if you have but a small stock of Patience, cannot the Lord strengthen you with all might in the inner man unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness, according to his glorious power, 1 Coll. 11. And is it not his promise, to confirm you to the end. 1 Cor. 1. 8. You neither know how much, nor how long you can bear and suffer. It is not inherent, but assisting grace by which your suffering abilities are to ⟨p. 128⟩be measured. God can make that little stock of patience you have to hold out as the poor Widows cruise of oil did, till deliverance come, he can enable your patience unto its perfect work, (i. e.) to work as extensively to all the kinds and sorts of trials, as intensively to the highest degree of trial, and as protensively to the longest duration and continuance of your trials, as he would have it: If this be a marvellous thing in your eyes, must it be so in Gods eyes also?
1. Cannot you distrust your own strength and ability, but you must also limit Gods? What if you have but a small stock of Patience, cannot the Lord strengthen you with all might in the inner man unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness, according to his glorious power, 1 Coll. 11. And is it not his promise, to confirm you to the end. 1 Cor. 1. 8. You neither know how much, nor how long you can bear and suffer. It is not inherent, but assisting grace by which your suffering abilities are to