B36604:348
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. Consid. 1 The Christians own imbecility and insufficiency, even in the strength and height of all his Acquirements and Preparations: what are you, to grapple with such an Adversary? Certainly, you are no Match for him that conquered Adam hand to hand in his state of integrity. It is not your inherent strength that enables you to stand, but what you receive, and daily derive from Jesus Christ, Joh. 15.5. Without me, or never so little separated from me, ye can do nothing, all our sufficiency is of God, 2 Cor. 3.5. Upon this very consideration it was, that the Apostle exhorts the Ephesians, to be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might, (i.e.) not to depend upon their own stock and furniture, but Divine Assistances, and daily Communications; for we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but Principalities and Powers, Ephes. 6.10, 12. in his own strength shall no man prevail.
1. Consid. 1 The Christians own imbecility and insufficiency, even in the strength and hieght of all his Acquirements and Preparations: what are you, to grapple with such an Adversary? Certainly, you are no Match for him that conquered Adam hand to hand in his state of integrity. It is not your inherent strength that enables you to stand, but what you receive, and daily derive from Jesus Christ, Joh. 15.5. Without me, or never so little separated from me, ye can do nothing, all our sufficiency is of God, 2 Cor. 3.5. Upon this very consideration it was, that the Apostle exhorts the Ephesians, to be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might, (i.e.) not to depend upon their own stock and furniture, but Divine Assistances, and daily Communications; for we wrestle not with flesh and bloud, but Principalities and Powers, Ephes. 6.10, 12. in his own strength shall no man prevail.