B36604:336
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.
Thirdly, You may learn to pray with more zeal and earnestness then before: Some Saints have excelled, and been remarkable for this, Daen. 9.19. Hos. 12.4. James 5.16.
Fourthly, with more assiduity and readiness at all times for it, Ephes. 6.18. Praying always, with all Prayer. Hence Christ gives that commendation to the Church, Cant. 4.11. Thy Lips, O my Spouse, drop as the Honey Comb: The Honey Comb often drops, but always hangs full of Drops ready to fall.
Fifthly, You may learn to pray with more Faith: Oh the qualms of Unbelief, that go over our Hearts in a Duty! Faith is the Soul of Prayer, and according to the Faith God finds in them, he accepts and values them. Now in all these things, you may improve your selves abundantly.