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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.
It is not the design of this Manual to scare and affright any man with imaginary dangers, much less to sow ⟨image 3⟩jealousies, and foment the discontents of the times: It being a just matter of lamentation, that all the tokens of Gods anger produce with many of us no better fruit, but bold Censures and loud Clamours, instead of humiliation for our own sins, and due preparation to take up our own Cross, and follow Christ in a suffering path, which is the only mark and aim of this Tract.
It is not the design of this Manual to scare and affright any man with imaginary dangers, much less to sow ⟨image 3⟩jealousies, and foment the discontents of the times: It being a just matter of lamentation, that all the tokens of Gods anger produce with many of us no better fruit, but bold Censures and loud Clamours, instead of humiliation for our own sins, and due preparation to take up our own Cross, and follovv Christ in a suffering path, which is the only mark and aim of this Tract.
We read the Histories of the Primitive Sufferers, but not with a Spirit prepared to follow them. Some ⟨image 4⟩Censure them as too prodigal of their blood, and others commend their Courage and Constancy; but where are they that sincerely resolve and prepare to be followers of them, who through faith and patience inherit the promises? Heb. 6.12. or take them for an Example of suffering affliction and of patience, Jam. 5.10.
We read the Histories of the Primitive Sufferers, but not with a Spirit prepared to follovv them. Some ⟨image 4⟩