B36604:101
Preparation for sufferings. Or The best work in the worst times Wherein the necessity,…
Preparation for sufferings. Or The best work in the worst times Wherein the necessity, excellency, and means of our readiness for sufferings are evinced and prescribed; our call to suffering cleared, and the great unreadiness of many professors bewailed. By John Flavel minister of Christ in Devon.Preparation for sufferings. Or The best work in the worst times Wherein the necessity, excellency, and means of our readiness for sufferings are evinced and prescribed; our call to suffering cleared, and the great unreadiness of many profesours bewailed. By John Flavel minister of Christ in Devon.
London: printed for Robert Boulter, 1681
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6. A sixth Excellency of Preparation, lies in the influence that it hath into a Christians stability in the evil day. You cannot but know, that your stability in that critical hour of Temptation, is a choice and singular Mercy, in as much as all you are worth in the other World depends upon your standing then, Rev. 21.7, 8. Rom. 2.6, 7. Luke 22.28. Neither can you be ignorant how much you are like to be tried and put to it then, whether you respect the Enemy that engages ⟨p. 34⟩you, Eph. 6.12. or your own weakness, who have been so often foiled in lesser trials, Jer. 12.5. All the Grace you have, will be little enough to keep the Field, and bear you up from sinking; and therefore it cannot but be a blessed thing, to be able to stand and cope with the greatest difficulties, in such a nick of trial as that will be. Now he that expects to do this, must put on the whole Armour of God. See Ephes. 6.12, 13, 14. There's no expectation of standing in the evil day, except your foot be shod, that is, your wills prepared, with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace.
6. A sixth Excellency of Preparation, lies in the influence that it hath into a Christians stability in the evil day. You cannot but know, that your stability in that critical hour of Temptation, is a choice and singular Mercy, in as much as all you are worth in the other World depends upon your standing then, Rev. 21.7, 8. Rom. 2.6, 7. Luke 22.28. Neither can you be ignorant how much you are like to be tryed and put to it then, whether you respect the Enemy that ingages