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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.
—Sic Medus ademit Assyrio, Medoque tulit moderamina Perses,1 Subjecit Persen Macedo, cessurus & ipse Romanis—
- 1Claudian lib. 3. in lauds Stiliconis.Claudian lib. 3. in laudes Stiliconis.
And no less admirable is the Wisdom of God in frustrating and defeating the most deep and desperate Designs of Hell against his poor people. Now you may see the most wise God going beyond a malicious and subtle Devil, overturning in a moment the deep-laid Designs and Contrivances of many years, and that at the ⟨p. 12⟩very birth and point of Execution, Hest. 6.1. snaring the wicked in the works of their own hands, making their own tongues to fall upon them, working out such marvellous Salvations with his own hand, as fills them with astonishment and wonder: Psal. 126.7. When the Lord turned back the Captivity of Zion, we were like them that dreamed.
And no less admirable is the Wisdom of God in frustrating and defeating the most deep and desperate Designs of Hell against his poor people. Now you may see the most wise God going beyond a malicious and subtil Devil, overturning in a moment the deep-laid Designs and Contrivances of many years, and that at the ⟨p. 12⟩very birth and point of Execution, Hest. 6.1. snaring the wicked in the works of their own hands, making their own tongues to fall upon them, working out such marvellous Salvations with his own hand, as fills them with astonishment and wonder: Psal. 126.7. When the Lord turned back the Captivity of Sion, we were like them that dreamed.