B36604:339
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.
1. By being more frequent in the Duty, Job 22.21. acquaint thy self with the Almighty; in the Hebrew it is, accustom thy self: Those that have been excellent, have also been abundant in it, Psal 15.17.
2. By taking heed that you grieve not the Spirit, on whose influences and assistances, you so entirely depend: Even as much as a Ship doth upon the Gales of Wind for its motion.
2. By taking heed that you grieve not the Spirit, on whose influences and assistances, you so intirely depend: Even as much as a Ship doth upon the Gales of Wind for its motion.
3. By honouring the Spirit which enables you to pray, and that especially two ways; (1) By dependences on him; go not forth in your own strength to the Duty, trust not upon your own promptness, or preparations. (2) By returning, and with thankfulness ascribing the praise of all to him: Be humble under all Enlargements: Say, Not I, but Grace.
3. By honouring the Spirit which enables you to pray, and that especially two ways; (1) By dependances on him; go not forth in your own strength to the Duty, trust not upon your own promptness, or preparations. (2) By returning, and with thankfulness ascribing the praise of all to him: Be humble under all Enlargements: Say, Not I, but Grace.