B36604:210
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.
1. Because the success and prevalence of Satan's temptations in the hour of persecution depends upon the fainting and overthrow of this Grace. Wherefore doth he raise persecutions ⟨p. 80⟩in the world, but because such terrible things are fitted to work upon the passion of carnal fear, which rises with those dangers, and makes the Soul as a tumultuous Sea. This is it he aims at, Neh. 6.13. This is a multiplying passion, that represents dangers more and greater than they are, and so drives the Soul into the very Net and Snare laid by the Devil to take it. Prov. 29.25. The fear of man brings a snare; which was sadly exemplified in Abraham, Gen. 12.12. and divers others of the Saints. If he can but subdue this Grace, he will quickly bring you to capitulate for life and liberty upon the basest and most dishonourable terms; therefore the preparation of this Grace is so exceedingly necessary.
1. Because the success and prevalence of Satans temptations in the hour of persecution depends upon the fainting and overthrow of this Grace. Wherefore doth he raise persecutions ⟨p. 80⟩in the world, but because such terrible things are fitted to work upon the passion of carnal fear, which rises with those dangers, and makes the Soul as a tumultuous Sea. This is it he aims at, Neh. 6.13. This is a multiplying passion, that represents dangers more and greater than they are, and so drives the Soul into the very Net and Snare laid by the Devil to take it. Prov. 29.25. The fear of man brings a snare; which was sadly exemplified in Abraham, Gen. 12.12. and divers others of the Saints. If he can but subdue this Grace, he will quickly bring you to capitulate for life and liberty upon the basest and most dishonourable terms; therefore the preparation of this Grace is so exceedingly necessary.