B36604:265
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.
3. Though a Prison look sad and dismal, yet it is not Hell: Oh bless God for that, that's a sad Prison indeed! Beloved, Men have their Prisons, and God hath his: Gods Prison is a terrible Prison, indeed; Thousands are now there in Chains, 1 Pet. 3.19. and there you deserved to have been sent long ago: If God exchange an Hell for a Prison, have you any cause to complain?
4. How obdure and cruel soever men are to you, yet the Lord Jesus is kind and tender-hearted to his Prisoners; he puts the kindnesses that any show them upon his own account, Mat. 25.36. He looks down from Heaven to hear the sighings and groanings of his Prisoners, Psal. 102.20. He will tenderly sympathize with you in all your Prison-Straights, and Troubles.
4. How obdure and cruel soever men are to you, yet the Lord Jesus is kind and tender-hearted to his Prisoners; he puts the kindnesses that any shew them upon his own account, Mat. 25.36. He looks down from Heaven to hear the sighings and groanings of his Prisoners, Psal. 102.20. He will tenderly sympathize with you in all your Prison-Straights, and Troubles.