B36604:229
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.
Labour to engage the presence of God with you in all places and conditions. Rule. 5 Whilst you enjoy this, your spirits will be invincible and undaunted, Josh. 1.9. Psal. 118.6. A weak Creature assisted ⟨p. 85⟩and encouraged by the presence of a great God, will be able to do and suffer great things. Poor Flesh in the hand of an Almighty Spirit acts above it self. A little Dog, if his Master be by and animates him, will seize upon a greater Beast than himself, though he would run from him were his Master absent. Our courage ebbs and flows, as the manifestations of the Divine Presence do. Oh get thy self once within the Line of that Promise, Isa. 43.1, 2. and thou art invincible.
Labour to engage the presence of God with you in all places and conditions. Rule. 5 Whilst you enjoy this, your spirits will be invincible and undaunted, Josh. 1.9. Psal. 118.6. A weak Creature assisted ⟨p. 85⟩and encouraged by the presence of a great God, will be able to do and suffer great things. Poor Flesh in the hand of an Almighty Spirit acts above it self. A little Dog, if his Master be by and animates him, will seize upon a greater Beast than himself, though he would run from him were his Master absent. Our courage ebbs and flowes, as the manifestations of the Divine Presence do. Oh get thy self once within the Line of that Promise, Isa. 43.1, 2. and thou art invincible.