B36604:321
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.
Showeth that a choice part of our preparation and readiness for sufferings, consists in the improvement of our praying abilities, and keeping close with God in that heavenly and excellent duty in days of suffering; wherein also of the nature and means of its improvement.
Showeth that a choice part of our preparation and readiness for sufferings, consists in the improvement of our praying abilities, and keeping close with God in that heavenly and excellent duty in daies of suffering; wherein also of the nature and means of its improvement.
Prayer is said to be amongst Duties, as Faith is amongst the Graces. Doubtless it is of special use and service at all times to a Christian; but yet in suffering days it is of more than ordinary use and necessity, Heb. 4.16. Jam. 5.13. and therefore it is reckoned among those choice pieces of Armour which suffering Saints are to put on, Ephes. 6.18. I will here briefly discover the necessity of it, and then show you that a Christian may improve himself to an excellent degree in it; and lastly prescribe some means for an improvement.
PRayer is said to be amongst Duties, as Faith is amongst the Graces. Doubtless it is of special use and service at all times to a Christian; but yet in suffering dayes it is of more than ordinary use and necessity, Heb. 4.16. Jam. 5.13. and therefore it is reckoned among those choice pieces of Armour which suffering Saints are to put on, Ephes. 6.18. I will here briefly discover the necessity of it, and then shew you that a Christian may improve himself to an excellent degree in it; and lastly prescribe some means for an improvement.