B36604:52
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.
Moreover, by exposing his people to such grievous sufferings, he gives a fit opportunity to manifest the glory of his Power in their support, and of his wisdom in the marvellous ways of their escape and deliverance. It is one of the greatest wonders in the world how the Church subsists under such fierce and frequent assaults as are made upon it by its Enemies: I will turn aside (said Moses) and see this great sight, why the Bush is not consumed, Exod. 3.3. That Flaming Bush was the lively Emblem of the oppressed Church in Egypt, the crackling Flames noted the heat of their Persecution, the remaining of the Bush unconsumed in the Flames, signified the wonderful Power of God in their preservation; no People are so privileged, so protected, so delivered, as the people of God; much less opposition than hath been made against the Church, hath overturned and utterly destroyed the mighty Monarchies of the world.
Moreover, by exposing his people to such grievous sufferings, he gives a fit opportunity to manifest the glory of his Power in their support, and of his wisdom in the marvellous ways of their escape and deliverance. It is one of the greatest wonders in the world how the Church subsists under such fierce and frequent assaults as are made upon it by its Enemies: I will turn aside (said Moses) and see this great sight, why the Bush is not consumed, Exod. 3.3. That Flaming Bush was the lively Emblem of the oppressed Church in Egypt, the crackling Flames noted the heat of their Persecution, the remaining of the Bush unconsumed in the Flames, signified the wonderful Power of God in their preservation; no People are so priviledged, so protected, so delivered, as the people of God; much less opposition than hath been made against the Church, hath overturned and utterly destroyed the mighty Monarchies of the world.
—Sic Medus ademit Assyrio, Medoque tulit moderamina Perses,1 Subjecit Persen Macedo, cessurus & ipse Romanis—