B36604:406
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.
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.
4. From the prevalent intercession of Jesus Christ in the Heavens, for all his Saints, in all their trials here on Earth. From hence the Apostle infers the certainty of our Perseverance, Rom. 8.34. and a pregnant instance of it you have in Peters case, Luke 22.32. So Heb. 7.25. speaks fully to the case. To strengthen this, consider 1. Who it is that intercedes: It's Christ, whose Person is most dear and ingratiated with the Father,