B36604:68
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.
First, The great corruption of Gods worship among them kindled his wrath, and hastened their ruin, Psal. 106.39, 40, 41, 42. They ⟨p. 17⟩were defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions; therefore was the wrath of God kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance, and he gave them into the hand of the Heathen, and they that hated them ruled over them, their Enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand. They that will not bear the Golden Yoke of Christ, shall be galled with the Iron Yoke of men: nothing more provokes the anger of God, than the adulterating of his worship; a man will bear with a thousand infirmities in the Wife of his Bosom, but unfaithfulness in the Marriage Covenant breaks his heart: after the manner of men so abused and grieved the Lord expresseth himself, Ezek. 6.9. I am broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me, and with their eyes that go a whoring after their Idols. Men cannot invent a surer and speedier way to their own ruin, than to bring their own inventions into Gods worship.
First, The great corruption of Gods worship among them kindled his wrath, and hastened their ruine, Psal. 106.39, 40, 41, 42. They ⟨p. 17⟩were defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions; therefore was the wrath of God kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance, and he gave them into the hand of the Heathen, and they that hated them ruled over them, their Enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand. They that will not bear the Golden Yoke of Christ, shall be galled with the Iron Yoke of men: nothing more provokes the anger of God, than the adulterating of his worship; a man will bear with a thousand infirmities in the Wife of his Bosom, but unfaithfulness in the Marriage Covenant breaks his heart: after the manner of men so abused and grieved the Lord expresseth himself,