B36604:301
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.
4. In not presenting the temptation, till the Soul be prepared to receive it. He loves to strike when the iron is hot. He first lets their troubles come to an height, brings them to the Prison, Gibbet, ⟨p. 105⟩or Fire, and then offers them deliverance, Heb 11.35, 37.
4. In not p•esenting the temptation, till the Soul be prepared to receive it. He loves to strike when the iron is hot. He first lets their troubles come to an height, brings them to the Prison, Gibbet, ⟨p. 105⟩or Fire, and then offers them deliverance, Heb 11.35, 37.
5. In tiring out Souls with the long continuance of temptations. What he cannot win by a sudden storm, he hopes to gain by a tedious siege. Forty days together he assaulted the Captain of our salvation, Mark 1.13. And truly it's a wonder the Soul yields not at last, that hath been tried long, Psal. 125.3. When the rod of the wicked lies long upon the back of the righteous, it is much if he put not forth his hand to iniquity.
5. In tiring out Souls with the long continuance of temptations. What he cannot win by a suddain storm, he hopes to gain by a tedious siege. Forty days together he assaulted the Captain of our salvation, Mark 1.13. And truly it's a wonder the Soul yields not at last, that hath been tried long, Psal. 125.3. When the rod of the wicked lies long upon the back of the righteous, it is much if he put not forth his hand to iniquity.