B36604:158
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.
5. Though God can quickly remove the darkness and doubts of a Soul, yet ordinarily the Saints find it a very hard and difficult thing to obtain and preserve the Evidences of their Graces. Such is the darkness, deadness, and deceitfulness of the heart; so much unevenness and inconstancy in their practice, so many counterfeits of Grace, and so many wiles and devices of Satan to rob them of their peace, that few (in comparison) live in a constant and quiet fruition of it.
6. Notwithstanding all these things which increase the difficulty, yet God hath afforded his people a sure Light, and sufficient means, in the diligent use and improvement whereof they ⟨p. 62⟩may attain a certainty of the work of Grace in them. And there is a threefold Light by which it may most clearly and infallibly be discovered.