B36604:326
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.
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.
4. This is a duty you may perform at any time, or in any condition: No Adversary can cut you off from it. It cannot be said so of many other duties. None can hinder the intercourse betwixt Heaven and your Souls. You may perform it in a Prison, Acts 16.25. in a banished condition, Psal. 61.2. and so is fitted for a suffering condition.