B36604:356
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.) 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, Heb. 9.12. but also by way of Application, bringing home to the Soul all the blessings purchased by his blood, and setling 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.
(2.) Posit. 2 In seeing the necessary dependence that all our Graces have upon him. That look as you see the Stream depending on the Fountain, the Beam upon the Sun, the Branch upon the Root, the Building upon the Foundation, even so do our Graces upon Christ: On him they live, and cut off from him they die. Our life is hid with Ghrist in God, Col. 3.3. When you see this, and also see that all your activity and striving is but as the hoisting up of the Sails, in order to the motion of the Ship, which can do nothing sill there come a Gale: When you look upon your Grace as a Creature ⟨p. 120⟩that must be upheld, fed, acted and preserved by Christ,