B36604:357
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.
(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, Col. 2.19. then you are prepared for this act of dependence: As for instance, You can never depend upon Christ for the acting of that Grace of Hope, until you see Christ to be the prop and foundation of it, and that it depends upon him, as upon its cause, 1 Pet. 1.3. as upon its object, Hebr. 6.19. and as upon its foundation and ground work, Col. 1.27.
(2.) Posit. 2 In seeing the necessary dependance 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 hoysting 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,