B36604:352
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.
But next it concerns you to know, what this dependence we speak of is: This also I shall abriefly ⟨p. 119⟩open to you, laying down somewhat negatively, and omewhat positively about it.
But next it concerns you to know, what this dependance we speak of is: This also I shll abriefly ⟨p. 119⟩open to you, laying down somewhat negatively, and omewhat positively about it.
It is not to deny the Grace wrought in us by the Spirit; this were both injustice and ingratitude: Neg. 1 We may know our own Graces so, as to be thankful for them, though not so as to be proud of them, 1 Cor. 15.10.
It is not a lazy excuse from our duty: Neg. 2 You do not depend, but rather dishonour Christ by so doing. You must not say, Because Christ must do all, therefore I must do nothing: but rather work out your salvation, because it's he that worketh both to will and do, Phil. 2.12, 13. These are not opposed, but subordinated.
It is not a lazy excuse from our duty: Neg. 2 You do not depend, but rather dishonor Christ by so doing. You must not say, Because Christ must do all, therefore I must do nothing: but rather work out your salvation, because it's he that worketh both to will and do, Phil. 2.12, 13