B36604:332
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
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2. He suggests the matter of our Prayers, and furnisheth us with the Materials, Rom. 8.26. guiding us as to the matter, not only to what is lawful, but also to what is expedient for us.
3. He stirreth up suitable Affections in Prayer, Rom. 8.26. and hence those groans and tears, those gaspings and vehement anhelations. But notwithstanding all our Abilities, both habitual and actual, be from the Spirit, and not from our selves, yet are they capable of improvement by us: For though in respect of acquirement, there be a great difference betwixt natural and supernatural Habits, yet their improvement is in the same way and manner; and this improvement may be made divers ways. For,
3. He stirreth up suitable Affections in Prayer, Rom. 8.26. and hence those groans and tears, those gaspings and vehement anhelations. But notwithstanding all our Abilities, both habitual and actual, be from the Spirit, and not from our selves, yet are they capable of improvement by us: For though in respect of acquirement, there be a great difference betwixt natural and supernatural Habits, yet their improvement is in the same way and manner; and this improvement may be made divers wayes. For,