B36604:116
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
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.
But now it is real Grace only that deposes ⟨p. 41⟩Self, and subjects its Interests to Christs; for Sanctification is nothing else but the dethroning of exalted Self, and the setting up of Christs Interest above it in the Soul. This is it that alters the property of all a man hath, and superscribes them with a new Title, Holiness to the Lord, Isa. 23.18. Zech. 14.20, 21. Thenceforth a man looks at himself as none of his own, but past into another's right, 1 Cor. 6.19. and that he must neither live, nor act ultimately for himself, but for Christ, Rom. 14.7. Heb. 13.7, 8. Phil. 1.20. He is no more as a Proprietor, but a Steward of all he hath; and so holds upon these terms to lay it out, or lay it down, as may best serve his Masters ends and glory.
But now it is real Grace only that deposes ⟨p. 41⟩Self, and subjects its Interests to Christs; for Sanctification is nothing else but the dethroning of exalted Self, and the setting up of Christs Interest above it in the Soul. This is it that alters the property of all a man hath, and superscribes them with a new Title, Holiness to the Lord, Isa. 23.18. Zech. 14.20, 21. Thenceforth a man looks at himself as none of his own, but past into anothers right, 1 Cor. 6.19. and that he must neither live, nor act ultimately for himself, but for Christ,