B36604:315
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.
Never engage a temptation in your own strength, Rule. 7 but go forth against it trembling in your selves, and relying on divine Aids and Assistances, Ephes. 6.10. What are you to grapple with Spirits, to enter the Lists with Principalities and Powers? or what is your strength that you should hope?
Let the days of your temptation, Rule. 8 be days of strong cries and supplication. Thus did Paul, 2 Cor. ⟨p. 109⟩12.8. Psal. 109.4. Your best posture to wrestle with Temptation, is upon your knees.
Let the dayes of your temptation, Rule. 8 be dayes of strong cries and supplication. Thus did Paul, 2 Cor. ⟨p. 109⟩12.8. Psal. 109.4. Your best posture to wrestle with Temptation, is upon your knees.
Dwell upon the consideration of those choice encouragements God hath laid up in the Word for such a time. Rule. 9 As (1) though he give Satan leave to tempt you, yet you are still in his hand to preserve you,