B36604:269
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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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.
8. Lastly, You do not know what a Mercy may be in it: It may be a time of retirement from the World, and the Clamours and Distractions that are abroad. These days of Imprisonment may be your Holy-days; as a Prisoner of Christ once called them.
4. Get an Heart mortified to the excessive and inordinate love of life: This, I confess, is the highest and hardest point of Self-denial, because it wraps up all other Self Interests in it. But yet consider,