B36604:35
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.
Secondly, §2He labours to Charm their unruly passions with a very quieting and calming Argument; For I am ready, &c. [Greek or Hebrew] parrot habee. I am prepared and fitted for the greatest sufferings which shall befall me in the pursuit of my duty, be it a Prison, or be it Death, I am provided for either; Liberty is dear, and Life much dearer, but Christ is dearer than either.
Secondly, §2He labours to Charm their unruly passions with a very quieting and calming Argument; For I am ready, &c. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 parate habee. I am prepared and fitted for the greatest sufferings which shall befall me in the pursuit of my duty, be it a Prison, or be it Death, I am provided for either; Liberty is dear, and Life much dearer, but Christ is dearer than either.
But what was there in all this to satisfy them whose trouble it was to see him so forward? let the words be considered, and we shall find divers things in them to satisfy and quiet their hearts, and make them willing to give him up.
But what was there in all this to satisfie them whose trouble it was to see him so forward? let the words be considered, and we shall find divers things in them to satisfie and quiet their hearts, and make them willing to give him up.
First, I am ready, that is, God hath fitted and prepared my heart for the greatest Sufferings; this is the work of God; flesh and blood would never be brought to this, were not all its interests and inclinations subdued and over-ruled by the Spirit of God: What do ye therefore in all this but work against the Design of God, who hath fitted and prepared my heart for this service?