B36604:30
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.
First, That Divine Precept, not Providence, is to rule out our way of duty.
Secondly, That no hinderances or discouragements whatsoever will justify our neglect of a known duty.
Secondly, That no hinderances or discouragements whatsoever will justifie our neglect of a known duty.
All these Rubs he passes over, all these discouragements he overcame with this Heroic and truly Christian resolution in the Text; What mean ye to weep, and to break my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the Name of the Lord Jesus.
All these Rubs he passes over, all these discouragements he overcame with this Heroick and truly Christian resolution in the Text; What mean ye to weep, and to break my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the Name of the Lord Jesus.
In which words we have: 1. A loving and gentle rebuke. 2. A quieting and calming Argument.