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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.
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? Luke 19.43, 44. Thine Enemies shall cast a Trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy Children within thee.
And when the Storm was just ready to fall, 1their own Historian tells us a Voice was heard in the Temple, saying, Migremus hinc, Let us go hence: Which Voice Tacitus also mentions in his Annals, affirming it to be more than a Humane Voice, telling them God was departing, and that it was accompanied with a rushing noise, as of persons going out; these were extraordinary warnings. The like Signs have been given to divers other Nations, by dreadful Eclipses of the Heavenly Bodies, Portentous Comets, Earthquakes, and other Signs of Judgment.
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