B36604:203
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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6. Keep Catalogues of all your remarkable Experiences; treasure them up as food for your Faith in time to come: Oh! it is a singular encouragement and heartening to Faith, when it can turn over the Records of Gods dealing with you in years past, and say as Joshua, Not one thing hath failed, Jos. 23.14. When it can say so of Promises, that have already had their accomplishments, then they will be apt to say concerning those yet to be accomplished, as Elizabeth said to Mary, Luke 1.45. Blessed is the Soul that believeth, for there shall be a performance of those things which are told it by the Lord.
6. Keep Catalogues of all your remarkable Experiences; treasure them up as food for your Faith in time to come: Oh! it is a singular encouragement and heartning to Faith, when it can turn over the Records of Gods dealing with you in years past, and say as Joshua, Not one thing hath failed, Jos. 23.14. When it can say so of Promises, that have already had their accomplishments, then they will be apt to say concerning those yet to be accomplished, as Elizabeth said to Mary, Luke 1.45. Blessed is the Soul that believeth, for there shall be a performance of those things which are told it by the Lord.
These Experiments are the Food of Faith: Psal. 74.14. Thou brakest the Heads of Leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to thy people inhabiting the Wilderness, (i. e.) That famous Experience of the Power and Love of God in their Red-Sea Deliverance, where he destroyed that Sea-Monster Pharaoh, and his Host, was Meat to the Faith of Gods Israel in the Wilderness afterwards. We often find Christ charging the peoples unbelief on a bad memory,