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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.
2. Mortify your Ambition, and vain Affectation of the Repute and Credit of the World: Oh stand not on so vain a thing as this! judge it but a small thing to be judged of man, to have your Names cast out as evil: Let not Scoffs and Reproaches be such terrible things to you. It is, without doubt, a great trial; else the Holy Ghost had not added a peculiar Epithet to it, which is not given to any other of the sufferings of the Saints: not cruel Tortures, nor cruel Stonings, Burnings, slayings with the Sword; but cruel mockings, Heb. 11.36.
2. Mortifie your Ambition, and vain Affectation of the Repute and Credit of the World: Oh stand not on so vain a thing as this! judge it but a small thing to be judged of man, to have your Names cast out as evil: Let not Scoffs and Reproches be such terrible things to you. It is, without doubt, a great trial; else the Holy Ghost had not added a peculiar Epithete to it, which is not given to any other of the sufferings of the Saints: not cruel Tortures, nor cruel Stonings, Burnings, slayings with the Sword; but cruel mockings, Heb. 11.36.
Yet learn to be dead to and unaffected with these things; set the reproaching World as light, and as low as it sets you: Despise the shame, as your Master Christ did, Heb. 12.2. and to promote Mortification in this, take these Helps: