B36604:385
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.
Containing another use of the Point, by way of Exhortation, persuading all the People of God, whilst the Lord respites, and graciously delays their trials, to answer the end of God therein, and prepare themselves for greater trials; where several Motives are propounded, to excite to the Duty.
Containing another use of the Point, by way of Exhortation, perswading all the People of God, whilest the Lord respites, and graciously delayes their trials, to answer the end of God therein, and prepare themselves for greater trials; where several Motives are propounded, to excite to the Duty.
UP then from your Beds of sloth, awake from your security, O ye Saints; get upon your Watch-Towers, tremble in your selves, that ye may rest in the Day of Evil, Hab. 2.1, 3, 16. Put on the whole Armour of God, that ye may be able to stand in the evil day, and when you have done all to stand, Eph. 6. O let it never be said of your Dwellings. as it is of the Tabernacles of the wicked. Job 21.9. Their Houses are safe from fear.
Augustus hearing of one that was deeply in debt, who yet slept heartily, sent for his Pillow, supposing there was some strange virtue, in that Pillow. I wonder what Pillow you have gotten, O ye drowsy Saints, that you can sleep so quietly upon it, now that all things about you are conspiring trouble, and threatening danger. Can you sleep like Jonah, when Seas of wrath are tumbling and roaring round about you, and threatening to entomb you, and all your enjoyments? Behold, The Stork in the Heavens knows her appointed time,