B36604:151
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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3. Prescribe some Rules for the obtaining of it.
1. What it is. And in short it's nothing else but the Spirits shining upon his own work in the hearts of Believers, thereby enabling them sensibly to see and feel it to their own satisfaction. And this is expressed in Scripture under a pleasant variety of Metaphors. Sometimes it is called the shedding abroad of the love of God in the heart, Rom. 5.5. sometimes the lifting up of the light of Gods countenance, Psal. 4.6. and sometimes it's expressed without a Trope; by Christs manifesting himself to the Soul, John 14.21.
1. What it is. And in short it's nothing else but the Spirits shining upon his own work in the hearts of Believers, thereby enabling them sensibly to see and feel it to their own satisfaction. And this is exprest in Scripture under a pleasant variety of Metaphors. Sometimes it is called the shedding abroad of the love of God in the heart, Rom. 5.5. sometimes the lifting up of the light of Gods countenance, Psal. 4.6. and sometimes it's exprest without a Trope; by Christs manifesting himself to the Soul, John 14.21.
For the opening of it, I desire you would consider these six things.