B36604:375
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 are there not many such to be found in every place? For (1) how difficult is it to persuade many of you to any duty that hath loss or hazard attending on it. Doth not the sincere heart stand inclinable and disposed to all the known will of God? Psal. 119.6. Do Christians use to enquire more what is cheap, easy, and safe for them, or what is their duty? Gal. 1.16. Speak Conscience, for to thee I do appeal; Art thou not conscious of some reserves, limitations, and exceptions? Doth not the man like Naaman desire the Lord to excuse and pardon him in this or that thing? 2 Kings 5.17. And thinkest thou that this is consistent with sincere obedience which excepts no duty, nor quarrels with any command, because they all flow equally from the sovereignty of God? Jam. 2.11. and so doth what it doth intuitu voluntatis, upon the sight of Gods will. Say Conscience, Are they not great strugglings, disputes, and contests betwixt thee, and fleshly interests in such cases? and art thou not frequently over-born? Oh search your hearts in this particular.
And are there not many such to be found in every place? For (1) how difficult is it to perswade many of you to any duty that hath loss or hazard attending on it. Doth not the sincere heart stand inclinable and dispofed to all the known will of God? Psal. 119.6. Do Christians use to enquire more what is cheap, easie, and safe for them, or what is their duty? Gal. 1.16. Speak Conscience, for to thee I do appeal; Art thou not conscious of some reserves, limitations, and exceptions? Doth not the man like Naaman desire the Lord to excuse and pardon him in this or that thing? 2 Kings 5.17. And thinkest thou that this is consistent with sincere obedience which excepts no duty, nor quarrels with any command, because they all flow equally from the sovereignty of God? Jam. 2.11