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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.
Secondly, I am ready, that is, my will and resolution stands in a full bent, my heart is fixed, you cannot therefore study to do me a greater injury, than to discompose and disorder my heart again, by casting such temptations as these in my way, to cause the flesh to rebel, and the Enemy that is within to renew his opposition.
Thirdly, I am ready, that is, my heart is so ⟨p. 5⟩fixed to follow the Call of God whatever shall befall me, that all your tears and entreaties to the contrary are but cast away, they cannot alter my fixed purpose, you had as good be quiet, and cheerfully resign me to the Will of God.
Thirdly, I am ready, that is, my heart is so ⟨p. 5⟩fixed to follow the Call of God whatever shall befall me, that all your tears and entreaties to the contrary are but cast away, they cannot alter my fixed purpose, you had as good be quiet, and chearfully resign me to the Will of God.
Thus you see the Equipage and preparation of Paul's Spirit to receive both Bonds and Death for Christ at Jerusalem; this made him victorious over the temptations of Friends, and the malice and cruelty of his Enemies; by this readiness and preparation of his mind he was carried through all, and enabled to finish his course with joy. From hence the Observation is;
Thus you see the Equipage and preparation of Paul's Spirit to receive both Bonds and Death for Christ at Jerusalem; this made him victorious over the temptations of Friends, and the malice and cruelty of his Enemies; by this readiness and preparation of his mind he was carried through all, and inabled to finish his course with joy. From hence the Observation is;