B36604:268
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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6. Should you, to avoid a Prison, commit a sin, instead of being Man's Prisoner, you shall be clapped up by God: for he hath a Prison for your Souls even in this World, Psal. 142.7. and this is ten thousand times more dreadful, than any Dungeon in the World. Oh it's a dark Prison! not a Cranny to let in one Beam of Gods Countenance upon your poor Souls. What a sad exchange have you made then?
6. Should you, to avoid a Prison, commit a sin, instead of being Man's Prisoner, you shall be clapt up by God: for he hath a Prison for your Souls even in this World, Psal. 142.7. and this is ten thousand times more dreadful, than any Dungeon in the World. Oh it's a dark Prison! not a Cranny to let in one Beam of Gods Countenance upon your poor Souls. What a sad exchange have you made then?
7. Consider what a ground of Comfort GOD hath laid in that Word, Rev. 2.10. to obviate the Fears and Terrors incident to us in such a condition: God hath limited Satan and his Instruments, both for time, number, and all circumstances of the trial.
7. Consider what a ground of Comfort GOD hath laid in that Word, Rev. 2.10. to obviate the Fears and Terrours incident to us in such a condition: God hath limited Satan and his Instruments, both for time, number, and all circumstances of the trial.