B36604:153
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.
For the opening of it, I desire you would consider these six things.
1. That it is attainable by Believers in this life, and that in a very high degree and measure. Many of the Saints have had it in a full measure, 1 Cor. 2.12. 1 John 3.24. John 21.15.
2. Though it be attainable by Believers, yet it is a thing separable from true Grace, and many precious Souls have gone mourning for the want of it, Isa. 50.10. This was sometimes the case of Heman, David, Job, and multitudes more.
3. During its continuance, it is the sweetest thing in the world. It swallows up all Troubles, and doubles all other Comforts: It puts more gladness into the heart, than the increase of Corn and Wine,