B36604:402
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.
It's well thou suspectest thine own heart, Sol. and tremblest in thy self; this fear will keep thee waking, when others are securely sleeping. It was a good saying of a Reverend Minister, now with God, He that fears to flinch, 1shall never flinch for fear. It's true, seeming Grace may be totally lost, Luke 8.18. Heb. 6.4, 5. 2 Pet. 2.20. It's granted also, that the sins of Believers deserve that God should forsake them, and that he may suffer Grace in them to be sadly re-bated, and they may fall before a Temptation, as Peter, and all the Disciples did. But that thou shalt never be separated from Christ, or fall Totus, a toto, in totum, utterly away from God, thou mayest be abundantly satisfied upon these five or six grounds.
- 1Mr. A. H
1. From Gods Eternal Electing Love, wherewithal gracious Souls are beloved and embraced, be their Graces never so weak, or their corruptions never so strong. This is immutable, Heb. 6.18. and hence it's said, Mark 13.22. They shall deceive (if it were possible) the very Elect. Now this immutable purpose of God, is not founded upon any mutable ground or reason in thee, Rom. 9.11. Yea, when he *Elected thee, he saw what thou wouldst be, and yet that hindered him not.