B36604:275
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.
Fourthly, To die for Christ, is one of the highest Testifications of your Love to Christ, that you are capable of, Joh. 13.37. Yea, 'tis such a Testification of your Love to the Lord Jesus, as Angels are not capable of making.
Fifthly, Why should you decline even a violent death for Christ, when as the bitterness of death is past, and there is no Hell following the pale Horse? It cannot separate you from Christ, Rom. 8.38.
Sixthly, Think what a death Christ suffered for you: in which the fullness of the Wrath both of God and Man met together, so that he was fore amazed; yet with desire, did he desire it for your sakes.
Sixthly, Think what a death Christ suffered for you: in which the fulness of the Wrath both of God and Man met together, so that he was fore amazed; yet with desire, did he desire it for your sakes.