B36604:421
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.
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.
4. You may furnish your selves at pleasure, with Examples of the mighty Power of God resting upon such as you are, out of our own Martyrology.
Thomas Drowry the poor blind Boy, Fox Vol. 3. p. 703. What a presence of Spirit was with him, when examined by the Chancellor!
Eulalia a Virgin, of about twelve years of age, see how she was acted above those years, yea, above the power of Nature: Fox. Vol. 1.