B36604:63
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.
AS Paul had many clear Premonitions and fore-notices of the sufferings that should befall him at Jerusalem, that he might not be surprised by them when they came; so it is usual with God (though not in such an immediate and extraordinary manner) to admonish the world, and especially his own people, of great trials and sufferings before hand, Amos 3.7. Surely the Lord will do nothing, but he revealeth his secrets unto his servants the Prophets.
AS Paul had many clear Premonitions and fore-notices of the sufferings that should befall him at Jerusalem, that he might not be surprized by them when they came; so it is usual with God (though not in such an immediate and extraordinary manner) to admonish the world, and especially his own people, of great tryals and sufferings before hand, Amos 3.7. Surely the Lord will do nothing, but he revealeth his secrets unto his servants the Prophets.
Thus when he was about to bring the Flood upon the World, he gave one hundred and twenty years warning of it before it came, ⟨p. 15⟩Gen. 6.3. And when he was to destroy Sodom, he saith, Gen. 18.17. Shall I hide from Abraham the thing that I do? And the like discovery he made about the same Judgment to Lot, Gen. 19.12, 13, 14. So when the Captivity of the Jews was nigh at hand, the people had many forewarnings of it; God forewarned them both Ministerially and Providentially; he warned them by the Prophets, Ezek. 3.17. Hear the word of my mouth, and give them warning from me. And when the time drew nigh to execute the Judgment determined upon Jerusalem, and the Temple, how plainly did Christ foretell them of it?