B36604:360
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.
(3) It lies in 1looking off from your own Grace, when ever you are put upon the acting of it, (I mean in regard of any dependence upon it) and looking by an eye of Faith for acceptation to Christ, Heb. 12.2. To the putting forth of which acts of dependence upon Christ, holy ejaculations in our on-sets upon duty, or those quick and vigorous lifting up of our souls to God that way are of special use, it being a duty fitted for the purpose, when there is no room for set and solemn Prayer. And thus briefly of its nature.
(3) It lies in 1looking off from your own Grace, when ever you are put upon the acting of it, (I mean in regard of any dependence upon it) and looking by an eye of Faith for acceptation to Christ, Heb. 12.2. To the putting forth of which acts of dependance upon Christ, holy ejaculations in our on-sets upon duty, or those quick and vigorous lifting up of our souls to God that way are of special use, it being a duty fitted for the purpose, when there is no room for set and solemn Prayer. And thus briefly of its nature.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] •ooking off •o the Au••our of our •aith.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 •ooking off •o the Au••our of our •aith.