B36604:254
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.
1. Consider this is no new or strange thing that hath happened to you: The holiest of men have past through the like, if not worse Trials, Heb. 10.33. Psal. 44.14. Reproaches have been the Lot of the best men. They called Athanasius Sathanasius; Cyprianus Coprianus, a gatherer of Dung; Blessed Paul a pestilent fellow: Doctor Story threw a Fagot at sweet Mr. Denlie's Face, as he was singing a Psalm in the midst of the flames, saying, I have spoiled a good old Song.
1. Consider this is no new or strange thing that hath happened to you: The holiest of men have past through the like, if not worse Trials, Heb. 10.33. Psal. 44.14. Reproaches have been the Lot of the best men. They called Athanasius Sathanasius; Cyprianus Coprianus, a gatherer of Dung; Blessed Paul a pestilent fellow: Doctor Story threw a Fagot at sweet Mr. Denlies Face, as he was singing a Psalm in the midst of the flames, saying, I have spoiled a good old Song.
2. It may be Religion hath been reproached and scoffed at for your sakes; and if so, think it not much to be reproached for Religions sake.
3. It's much better to be reproached-by men for discharging Duty, than by your own Consciences for the neglect of it: If all be quiet within, never be moved at the noise and clamour without: if you have a good Roof over your Head, be not troubled though the Winds and Storms bluster abroad,