B36604:361
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.
And to urge you to this duty, I shall offer these seven Considerations; which oh that they might prevail upon your hearts, and make you for ever to clasp and cling about Christ more than ever you have done.
And to urge you to this duty, I shall offer these seven Considerations; which oh that they might prevail upon your hearts, and make you for ever to cl•sp and cling about Christ more than ever you have done.
You have little reason to rely upon the strength ⟨p. 121⟩of your own Graces; for you may be easily deceived in that matter, and think you have much more Grace then you have. How often are the common Gifts of the Spirit mistaken for his special Graces! The sixth Chapter to the Hebrews is able to make a man tremble in this thing.
Suppose you have much Grace, Consid. 2 yet have you not strong Corruptions, and may you not meet with strong temptations also? He that hath less of other Graces then you may have more humility and self-denial then you, and so may stand, when you fall. Great enlargements are often attended with great temptations of Pride, &c.