B36604:354
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.
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. These are not opposed, but subordinated.
But then positively, it lies in three things.
(1.) In seeing and acknowledging the infinite sufficiency and fullness that is in Christ: Posit. 1 To acknowledge him to be all in all; not only by way of Impetration procuring all, Heb. 9.12. but also by way of Application, bringing home to the Soul all the blessings purchased by his blood, and settling us in the possession of it, Joh. 14.3. and so from first to last to eye him as the Author and Finisher of our Faith.
(1.) In seeing and acknowledging the infinite sufficiency and fulness that is in Christ: Posit. 1 To acknowledge him to be all in all; not only by way of Impetration procuring all,