B36604:376
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.
Yea secondly, I appeal to you, whether there be not many among you that choose sin rather then affliction? This is always the Hypocrites option and choice. He judges sufferings the greatest evils, and so orders himself in his election. It was merely to avoid persecution that those Hypocrites, Gal. ⟨p. 125⟩6.12. constrained others to be circumcised, only to gratify the Jews; that so by a sinful compliance with them, the offence of the Cross might cease. If Paul would have done so, he might have avoided it too, but he durst not whatever he suffered, Gal. 5.11. Oh this is a shred sign of a false heart, Job 36.21. and the contrary disposition is always found in the upright heart, Heb. 11.25.
Yea secondly, I appeal to you, whether there be not many among you that choose sin rather then affliction? This is alwayes the Hypocrites option and choice. He judges sufferings the greatest evils, and so orders himself in his election. It was meerly to avoid persecution that those Hypocrites, Gal. ⟨p. 125⟩6.12. constrained others to be circumcised, onely to gratifie the Jews; that so by a sinful compliance with them, the offence of the Cross might cease. If Paul would have done so, he might have avoided it too, but he durst not whatever he suffered, Gal. 5.11. Oh this is a shred sign of a salse heart, Job 36.21. and the contrary disposition is always found in the upright heart, Heb. 11.25