B36604:303
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.
6. In falling most violently upon them, when they are lowest and most prostrate in their spirits and comforts: So he assaulted Job with a temptation to curse God and die, when he sate in that deplorable state upon the dunghill, Job 2.8, 9. He loves to fall upon us as Simeon and Levi did upon the Shechemi•es, when we are sore and wounded: And therefore ordinarily you find times of divine desertions, to be times of diabolical temptations. So that look as the wild Beasts of the Desert come out of their Dens in the night, and then roar after their prey, Psal. 104.20. so doth Satan when the Soul seems to be benighted and lost in the darkness of Spiritual troubles.
6. In falling most violently upon them, when they are lowest and most prostrate in their spirits and comforts: So he assaulted Job with a temptation to curse God and die, when he sate in that deplorable state upon the dunghil, Job 2.8, 9. He loves to fall upon us as Simeon and Levi did upon the Shechemi•es, when we are sore and wounded: And therefore ordinarily you find times of divine desertions, to be times of diabolical temptations. So that look as the wild Beasts of the Desart come out of their Dens in the night, and then roar after their prey, Psal. 104.20. so doth Satan when the Soul seems to be benighted and lost in the darkness of Spiritual troubles.
And this is the second thing wherein the efficacy and strength of temptation lies.