B36604:261
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. That the affliction, in such cases of Restraint, is more from within, than from without you. There's no place but may be delectable to you, if your heart be heavenly, and the presence of God be engaged with you. What a sweet Night had Jacob at Bethel? Paul and Silas in the Stocks? See that precious Letter of Pomponius Algerius.
1. That the affliction, in such cases of Restraint, is more from within, than from without you. There's no place but may be delectable to you, if your heart be heavenly, and the presence of God be engaged with you. What a sweet Night had Jacob at Bethel? Paul and Silaes in the Stocks? See that precious Letter of Pomponius Algerius.
Transtulit in caelum Christi praesentia claustrum; Quid faciet caelo? quae Caelum jam create antro.
Transtulit in caelum Christi praesentia claustrum; Quid faciet caelo? quae Caelum jam creat antro.
It's your own Unbelief and Impatience, that gives you more trouble than the Condition.
It's your own Ʋnbelief and Impatiency, that gives you more trouble than the Condition.