B36604:405
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.
3. From that strict and intimate union that is betwixt Christ and thee. And hence it's impossible thou shouldest be lost: For 1. Thy union with his Person, draws interest in his Properties with it: What ever he is, or hath, it is for thee; his eye of Knowledge, arm of Power, bowels of Pity, it's all for thee.
2. This union with his Person, secures thy feeble Graces from perishing, John 4.14. Thy Graces have an everlasting Spring. Whilst there is Sap in this Root, it will ascend into the Branches.
2. This union with his Person, secures thy feeble Graces from perishing, John 4.14. Thy Graces have an everlasting Spring. Whilest there is Sap in this Root, it will ascend into the Branches.
3. It implies thy Perseverance, because by this union thou becomest an integral part of ⟨p. 139⟩Christs Body, which would be mutilate and defective, shouldst thou be cut off and lost.