B36604:313
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.
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.
Consider sadly what the consequence of yielding up your selves to temptation will be: Rule. 6 The Name of God will be dreadfully reproached, 2 Sam. 12.14. A fatal stumbling-block is laid before the blind world, 1 Sam. 2.36. the hearts of many upright ones made sad, Psal. 25.3. The fall of a Professor is as when a Standard-bearer fainteth; and a dreadful wound it will be to thine own Conscience, 2 Cor. 2.7. Matth. 25.76. One hours sleep of security, may keep you many days and nights waking upon the Wrack of horror.
Consider sadly what the consequence of yielding up your selves to temptation will be: Rule. 6 The Name of God will be dreadfully reproached, 2 Sam. 12.14. A fatal stumbling-block is laid before the blind world,