B36604:160
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.
2. The Innate Light of Grace it self; or if you will the Light of Experience, 1 John 5.10. It hath some properties and operations which are as essential, necessary, and inseparable, as heat is to the fire, and may be as sensibly felt and perceived by the Soul, Psal. 119.20.
3. The Light of the Spirit, superadded to both the former, which is sometimes called its Earnest, sometimes its Seal. The Spirit doth both plant the habits, excite and draw forth the acts, and also shine upon his own work that the Soul may see it; and that sometimes with such a degree of Light, as only begets peace, and quiets the heart, though it do not fully conquer all the doubts of it. And at other times the heart is irradiated with so clear a Beam of Light, that it's able to draw forth the Triumphant Conclusion, and say, Now I know the things that are freely given me of God: I believe, and am sure.