B36604:312
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.
Believe that God hath cursed and blasted all the ways of sin, Rule. 4 that they shall never be a shelter to any soul that flies for refuge to them, Mark 8.35. Prov. 13.15. The way of Transgressors is an hard and difficult way. There is no security in the way of iniquity. He that runs from suffering to sin, runs from the seeming to the real danger; from the painted, to the living Lion.
Believe that God hath cursed and blasted all the ways of sin, Rule. 4 that they shall never be a shelter to any soul that flies for refuge to them, Mark 8.35. Prov. 13.15. The way of Transgressours is an hard and difficult way. There is no security in the way of iniquity. He that runs from suffering to sin, runs from the seeming to the real danger; from the painted, to the living Lion.
Live up to this principle, Rule. 5 that there is no policy like sincerity and godly simplicity. This will preserve and secure you, when carnal wisdom will expose and betray you. Psal. 25.2. Job 2.3. Sinful policy never thrives with Saints.
Live up to this principle, Rule. 5 that there is no policy like sincerity and godly simplicity. This will preserve and secure you, when carnal wisdome will expose and betray you. Psal. 25.2. Job 2.3. Sinful policy never thrives with Saints.