B36604:71
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
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Fourthly, The persecution of Gods faithful Ministers and People was another sin that procured, and a sign that foretold the destruction of their Nation, 2 Chron. 36.15, 16. And the Lord God of their Fathers sent to them by his Messengers, rising up betimes and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place; but they mocked the Messengers of God, and despised his Words, and misused his Prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. There were also a number of upright Souls among them, who desired to ⟨p. 19⟩to worship God according to his own prescription; but a Snare was laid for them in Mispah, and a Net spread for them upon Tabor, Hos. 5.1. and this hastened Judgment towards them: Mispah and Tabor, were places lying in the way betwixt Samaria and Jerusalem, where the true worship of God was; and in those places Spies were set by the Priests to observe and inform against them, so that it became very hazardous to attend the pure and incorrupt worship of God, which quickly hastened on their ruin.
Fourthly, The persecution of Gods faithful Ministers and People was another sin that procured, and a sign that foretold the destruction of their Nation, 2 Chron. 36.15, 16. And the Lord God of their Fathers sent to them by his Messengers, rising up betimes and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place; but they mocked the Messengers of God, and despised his Words, and misused his Prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. There were also a number of upright Souls among them, who desired to ⟨p. 19⟩to worship God according to his own prescription; but a Snare was laid for them in Mispah, and a Net spread for them upon Tabor, Hos. 5.1. and this hastened Judgment towards them: Mispah and Tabor, were places lying in the way betwixt Samaria and Jerusalem, where the true worship of God was; and in those places Spies were set by the Priests to observe and inform against them, so that it became very hazardous to attend the pure and incorrupt worship of God, which quickly hastened on their ruine.