B36604:237
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.
THE next thing wherein your actual readiness for Bonds or Death consisteth, is, in the mortification of your Affections to all Earthly Interests and Enjoyments, even the best and sweetest of them: Till this be done, in so me measure, you are not fit to be used in any such service for the Lord, 2 Tim. 1.21. The living World, is the very Life of Temptations: The travailing pains of Death, are stronger and sharper upon none, than those that are full of Sense and Self. As you see in Nature, what Conflicts and Agonies strong and lively persons suffer when they ⟨p. 88⟩die! When others, in whom Nature is decayed and spent before hand, die away without half that pain, even as a Bird in a shell. Corruption in the Saints, is like the Sap in green Wood, which resisteth the fire, and will not burn well, till it be dried up. Prepared Paul had an Heart mortified, in a very high degree, to all the Honour and Riches of the World, accounting them all but Trifles, Gal. 6.14. 1 Cor. 4.3, 4.
THE next thing wherein your actual readiness for Bonds or Death consisteth, is, in the mortification of your Affections to all Earthly Interests and Enjoyments, even the best and sweetest of them: Till this be done, in so me measure, you are not fit to be used in any such service for the Lord, 2 Tim. 1.21. The living World, is the very Life of Temptations: The travailing pains of Death, are strenger and sharper upon none, than those that are full of Sense and Self. As you see in Nature, what Conflicts and Agonies strong and lively persons suffer when they ⟨p. 88⟩die! When others, in whom Nature is decay'd and spent before hand, die away without half that pain, even as a Bird in a shell. Corruption in the Saints, is like the Sap in green Wood, which resisteth the fire, and will not burn well, till it be dried up. Prepared Paul had an Heart mortified, in a very high degree, to all the Honour and Riches of the World, accounting them all but Trifles, Gal. 6.14. 1 Cor. 4.3, 4