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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
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5. There is a worth and excellency in the Reproaches of Christ, as bad as they seem; and such an excellency, as is not to be matched by any Earthly Enjoyment, Heb. 11.26. The Reproaches of Christ are of more worth, than the Treasures of Egypt, though Egypt then was the Magazine of the World for Treasures. The Apostles counted them their honours, Acts 5.41. When Ludovicus Marsacus, a Knight of France, saw those that were to suffer with him in the Chains, and that they put none upon him, because of the Nobility of his Birth, he said to the Executioner, Cur me non quoque Torque donas, & illustris illius ordinis militem non creas? Why do you not honour me with a Chain too, and create me a Knight of that Noble Order?
5. There is a worth and excellency in the Reproaches of Christ, as bad as they seem; and such an excellency, as is not to be matched by any Earthly Enjoyment, Heb. 11.26. The Reproaches of Christ are of more worth, than the Treasures of Egypt, though Egypt then was the Magazeen of the World for Treasures. The Apostles counted them their honours, Acts 5.41. When Ludovicus Marsacus, a Knight of France, saw those that were to suffer with him in the Chains, and that they put none upon him, because of the Nobility of his Birth, he said to the Executioner, Cur me non quoque Torque donas, & illustris illius ordinis militem non creas? Why do you not honour me with a Chain too, and create me a Knight of that Noble Order?
6. Lastly, should Scoffs and Reproaches scare you from Christ and Duty; then, though you should escape the Reproaches of men, yet shall you fall under the everlasting Contempt of God, Angels, and good Men, Therefore, Fear ye not the Reproaches of men that shall die, nor be afraid of their revilings, for the Moth shall eat them up like a Garment, and the Worm shall eat them like Woo; but my Righteousness shall be for ever, and my Salvation from Generation to Generation,