B36604:425
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.
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. ⟨p. 143⟩p. 120. Tender Women, yea Children act above themselves, when assisted by a strong God.
And thus you have some help offered you by a weak hand, in your present and most important work.
The Lord carry home all with Power upon your hearts, that (if God call you to suffer for him) you may say as Paul did, I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith, henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness, which God the Righteous Judge shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but to them also which love his appearing, 2 Tim. 4.6. And as you expect so to finish your course with joy, be diligent in the use of all means, to prepare and make your selves ready to follow the Call of God, whether it be to Bonds, or to Death, for the Name of the Lord Jesus.