B36604:403
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.
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.
1. From Gods Eternal Electing Love, wherewithall gracious Souls are beloved and imbraced, 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 hindred him not.
2. From the Covenant of Grace, in the Bosom of which thou art wrapped up: This is all thy salvation, and all thy hope; it will afford thee abundant satisfaction, if thou do but weigh particularly these three things about it: