B36604:409
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
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5. From the Spirit of Christ which dwelleth and abideth in thee, and hath begun his saving work upon thee. I say saving, for else it would afford no argument: His common works on Hypocrites come to nothing, but in thee they cannot fail: For 1. His Honour is pawned and engaged to perfect it. That reproach of the foolish Builder shall never lye upon him, that he began to build, but could not finish. Besides, this would irritate, and void all that the Father and the Son have done for thee; both their works are complete and perfect in their kinds, and the Spirit is the last efficient in order ⟨p. 140⟩of working. 2. Besides, the Grace he hath already wrought in thee, may give thee yet further and fuller assurance of its preservation, inasmuch as it hath the nature of a Seal, Pledge, and Earnest of the whole, Rom. 8.23. 2 Cor. 1.22. So that it cannot fail.
5. From the Spirit of Christ which dwelleth and abideth in thee, and hath begun his saving work upon thee. I say saving, for else it would afford no argument: His common works on Hypocrites come to nothing, but in thee they cannot fail: For 1. His Honour is pawned and ingaged to perfect it. That reproach of the foolish Builder shall never lye upon him, that he began to build, but could not finish. Besides, this would irritate, and void all that the Father and the Son have done for thee; both their works are compleat and perfect in their kinds, and the Spirit is the last efficient in order ⟨p. 140⟩of working. 2. Besides, the Grace he hath already wrought in thee, may give thee yet further and fuller assurance of its preservation, inasmuch as it hath the nature of a Seal, Pledge, and Earnest of the whole, Rom. 8.23. 2 Cor. 1.22. So that it cannot fail.