B36604:255
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. 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, ⟨p. 95⟩1 Pet. 4.14. Take heed what you do, and be heedless what the World says.
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, ⟨p. 95⟩1 Pet. 4.14. Take heed what you do, and be heedless what the World sayes.
4. Always remember, that you neither stand or fall at the Worlds Judgment, and therefore have the less reason to be troubled at it, 1 Cor. 4.3. If your condition were to be cast to Eternity by it, it were somewhat.