B36604:18
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.
PREPARATION FOR SUFFERINGS.
ACTS XXI. XIII. Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep, and break my heart? for I am ready, not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the Name of the Lord Jesus.
CHAP. I.
Wherein the Text is opened, and the Doctrine propounded.
The Divine Providence is not more signally discovered in governing the Motions of the Clouds, than it is in disposing and ordering the Spirits and Motions of the Ministers of the Gospel, who in a mystical sense are fruitful Clouds to dispense the showers of Gospel-Blessings to the World. The Motion of the Clouds is not spontaneous, but they move as they are moved by the winds; neither can Gospel-Ministers ⟨p. 2⟩choose their own Stations, and govern their own Motions, but must go when and where the Spirit and Providence of God directs and guides them; as will evidently appear in that dangerous Voyage to Jerusalem in which the Apostle was at this time engaged;