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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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Wherein is opened the singular advantage that suffering Saints have, by their skill, and in-sight into the Methods and Mysteries of Sathan's Temptations; some of those Wiles of Satan opened; and Rules for the avoiding of the danger briefly prescribed.
Wherein is opened the singular advantage that suffering Saints have, by their skill, and in-sight into the Methods and Mysteries of Sathans Temptations; some of those Wiles of Sathan opened; and Rules for the avoiding of the danger briefly prescribed.
THE hazards and dangers of Christians, in times of Persecution, arise not so much from their Sufferings, as from the Temptations that always attend and are by Satan planted upon their Sufferings: for the most part, Sufferings and Temptations go together, Heb. 11.37. And therefore, it behoves such as are, or expect to be called to Sufferings, to dive into the Mysteries of Temptations, and be well acquainted with the Enemies Designs upon them. So was Paul, and so he supposes all others to be, that engage in the same Cause; We are not ignorant of his Devices, 2 Cor. 2.11. There is a manifold advantage redounding to suffering Saints thereby.
THE hazards and dangers of Christians, in times of Perfecution, arise not so much from their Sufferings, as from the Temptations that always attend and are by Satan planted upon their Sufferings: for the most part, Sufferings and Temptations go together, Heb. 11.37. And therefore, it behoves such as are, or expect to be called to Sufferings, to dive into the Mysteries of Temptations, and be well acquainted with the Enemies Designs upon them. So was Paul, and so he supposes all others to be, that ingage in the same Cause; We are not ignorant of his Devices, 2 Cor. 2.11