B36604:325
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.
2. As it gives a vent to our troubles, so an in let to unspeakable comforts and consolations. See a pregnant instance of this, Act. 16.25. For (1) hereby they obtain gracious answers from the Lord concerning their troubles, 2 Cor. 12.9. In this also they meet the gracious smiles of God which swallow up their troubles, Psal. 85.8. And lastly, hereby they prevail with God to open a seasonable and effectual door out of all their troubles, Psal. 34.4, 6.
3. Prayer begets and maintains holy courage and magnanimity in evil times, when all things abou• you tend to discouragement. It is your being with Jesus that makes you bold, Acts 4.13. He that uses to be before a great God, will not be afraid to look su•• little things as men are in the face. Th[…] clothed with the •un, had the Moon under her feet. And what need you have of courage in evil times, hath been already showed.
3. Prayer begets and maintains holy courage and magnanimi•y in evil times, when all things abou• you tend to discouragement. It is your being with Jesus that makes you bold, Acts 4.13. He that uses to be before a great God, will not be afraid to look su•• little things as men are in the face. Th clothed with the un, had the Moon under her seet. And what need you have of courage in evil times, hath been already shewed.