B36604:286
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.
Oh then how necessary is it, that since all Persecutions are intended as means to promote Temptation: and that skill and insight into these Designs of Satan, so advantages us to frustrate his Designs in both? I say, how necessary is it, that you should be all instructed wherein the strength of Temptation lies; as also how to resist those strong and dangerous Temptations, which your Sufferings only are intended to usher in, and make way for?
Oh then how necessary is it, that since all Persecutions are intended as means to promote Temptation: and that skill and insight into these Designs of Sathan, so advantages us to frustrate his Designs in both? I say, how necessary is it, that you should be all instructed wherein the strength of Temptation lies; as also how to resist those strong and dangerous Temptations, which your Sufferings onely are intended to usher in, and make way for?
It will not be unseasonable or impertinent then in this Chapter to show you; First, wherein the force and efficacy of Temptations lieth: Secondly, what you are to do, when in a suffering hour such Temptations shall assault you. And first,
It will not be unseasonable or impertinent then in this Chapter to shew you; First, wherein the force and efficacy of Temptations lyeth: Secondly, what you are to do, when in a suffering hour such Temptations shall assault you. And first,
1 Qu. Wherein doth the efficacy and power of Temptation lie?