B36604:414
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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2. The Lord by this will advantage thee for perseverance, not only as they are cautional against sin, but as they make thee hold Christ the faster, and prize his †Presence at an higher rate, when he shall please graciously to manifest himself to thee again.
- †Cam. 3.4.
3. This shall not abide for ever; it's but a little Cloud, and will blow over. It is but for a moment, and that moments Darkness ushers in everlasting Light, Isa. 54.7.
Yea lastly, The light of Gods Countenance shall not only be restored Certainly, but it shall be restored Seasonably; when thy Darkness is greatest, thy trouble's at the highest, and thy hopes lowest. He is a God of Judgment, and knows how to time his own mercies, Psa. 138.3.