B36604:201
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.
4. Go to Jesus Christ, who is the Author and Finisher of Faith, and cry to him, as Mark 9.24. Lord increase my Faith: Yea, beg the assistance of others Prayers in this behalf, as the Apostle did, 1 Thes. 3.10. 2 Thes. 1.11. Faith animates ⟨p. 77⟩Prayer, and Prayer increases Faith.
5. Improve times of affliction for the increase of Faith: For certainly, sanctified afflictions do notably exercise and increase this Grace, 1 Pet. 1.7. In times of Prosperity, we see not what stock of Faith we have: We live so much upon things seen, that we cannot many times tell whether we have Faith or no: But when difficult days come, then we must get out our whole subsistence and livelihood by Faith, Hab. 2.4. Yea, then we have many Proofs and Experiments of Gods fidelity in the Promises, which is a choice help to Faith, 2 Cor. 1.10.
5. Improve times of affliction for the increase of Faith: For certainly, sanctified afflictions do notably exercise and increase this Grace, 1 Pet. 1.7. In times of Prosperity, we see not what stock of Faith we have: We live so much upon things seen, that we cannot many times tell whether we have Faith or no: But when difficult days come, then we must get out our whole subsistance and livelihood by Faith,