B36604:195
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
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5. Faith entitles Christ to the Believers sufferings, and puts them upon his score; and so it exceedingly transforms and alters them: Ah! it's no small relief, when a man can hold up the Bible, as that Martyr did at the stake, and say, This is that which hath brought me hither: Or, as the Psalmist, For thy sake we are killed all the day long: Or, as the Apostle, Col. 1.24. I fill up that which is behind of the sufferings of Christ in my flesh.
6. Lastly, Faith engages the presence of God, to be and abide with the Soul in all its solitudes and sufferings: It lays hold upon the Promises made to that purpose, Psal. 23.2. Isa. 43.2. Heb. 13.5. John 14.18. and whilst a poor Soul enjoys this, the very sense of troubles is swallowed up.
6. Lastly, Faith ingages the presence of God, to be and abide with the Soul in all its solitudes and sufferings: It lays hold upon the Promises made to that purpose, Psal. 23.2. Isa. 43.2. Heb. 13.5. John 14.18. and whilest a poor Soul enjoys this, the very sense of troubles is swallowed up.