B36604:164
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. I shall show you the necessity of it to a suffering Saint, in order to the right management of a suffering condition.
2. I shall shew you the necessity of it to a suffering Saint, in order to the right management of a suffering condition.
And this will appear by the consideration of five things.
1. You will readily grant that the Christians love to God hath a mighty influence into all his ⟨p. 63⟩sufferings for God. This Grace of love enables him victoriously to break through all difficulties and discouragements. The Floods cannot drown it, nor the Waters quench it, Cant. 8.6, 7. It facilitates the greatest hardships, 1 John 5.3. And whatever a man suffer, if it be not from this Principle, it is neither acceptable to God, nor available to himself, 1 Cor. 13.3.