B36604:214
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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4. Your magnanimity is of special use to other Saints, who are following you in the same path of sufferings. If you faint, it's like the fainting of a Standard-bearer in an Army: You bring thereby an evil report upon the Cross of ⟨p. 82⟩Christ, as the first Spies did upon the Land of Canaan. And a like influence with that it is like to have on your Brethren; so that there is a necessity of improving this Grace also, before you can say with Paul you are ready.
4. Your magnanimity is of special use to other Saints, who are following you in the same path of sufferings. If you faint, it's like the fainting of a Standard-bearer in an Army: You bring thereby an evil report upon the Cross of ⟨p. 82⟩Christ, as the first Spies did upon the Land of Ca•aan. And a like influence with that it is like to have on your Brethren; so that there is a necessity of improving this Grace also, before you can say with Paul you are ready.
2. But what is this Christian fortitude, and wherein doth it consist?
I answer briefly, It is an holy boldness in the performance of difficult duties, flowing from Faith in the call of God, and his promise to us in the discharge of them.