B36604:217
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.
And so you have the nature of it in these four particulars:
1. It is an holy boldness, not a natural or sinful boldness, arising either from the natural constitution, or evil disposition of the mind.
2. It is expressed about duties for truth, not error, Jerem. 9.3. for the Interest of Christ, not o• the flesh.
2. It is exprest about duties for truth, not error, Jerem. 9.3. for the Interest of Christ, not o• the flesh.