B36604:419
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. Thou shalt be holden up, for God is able to make thee stand, Rom. 14.4. Thou that art sensible of thine own infirmity, mayest run to that Promise.
3. Such poor weak Creatures shall endure, when stronger (if Self-confident) fall, Isa. 40.30, 31. Even the youths shall faint, and be weary, and the young men utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord, shall renew their strength: They shall mount up with wings as Eagles, run and not be weary, walk, and not faint.
Youths and young men are bold, daring and confident persons, that trust to their own strength; to whom such as wait upon the Lord, stand here opposed: They shall faint, but these shall renew their strength.
Art thou one that waitest and dependest upon an All-sufficient God, in the sense of thine own weakness? This Promise then is for thee.