B36604:316
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.
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, Deut. 33.3. Joh. 10.28. (2) That whilst Satan is sifting and trying you on Earth, Christ is interceding for you in Heaven, Luke 22.31, 32. (3) That an eternal reward is laid up for those that overcome, Luke 22.28, 29. Rev. 21.7, 8