B36604:246
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.
First, Consider your Espousals to Christ, and how you have chosen and professed him for your Lord and Husband: Therefore, your doting upon the World, is no less than Adultery against Christ, James 4.4. If Christ be your Husband, he must be a Covering to your Eyes; an unchaste Glance upon the World wounds him.
Secondly, The more you prize it, the more you will be tormented by it: Did you prize and love it less, it would disquiet and vex you less: It's our doting on it, that makes it draw blood at parting.
Secondly, The more you prize it, the more you will be tormented by it: Did you prize and love it less, it would disquiet and vex you less: It'ts our doating on it, that makes it draw blood at parting.
Thirdly, Get true Scripture-notions of the world, and rectify your Judgments and Affections by them. If you will have the true Picture and Representation of it drawn by the Hand of God himself, see 1 John 2.16. It's nothing else but Lust that puts that Lustre upon it: It hath but a Fantastic Glory, and that also passeth away: What is become of them that ruffled it out in the World but one hundred years ago? What could the World do for them? Are they not all gone down to the ⟨p. 93⟩sides of the Pit? But ke that doth the will of God abideth for ever.
Thirdly, Get true Scripture-notions of the world, and rectifie your Judgments and Affections by them. If you will have the true Picture and Representation of it drawn by the Hand of God himself, see