B36604:74
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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Seventhly, To conclude, Mutual Animosities, Jars and Divisions, were to them manifest symptoms of National calamities and desolations; for then Ephraim envied Judah, and Judah vexed Ephraim, Isa. 11.13. Hosea 9.7. The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come, Israel shall know it: The Prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquities, and the great hatred.
Seventhly, To conclude, Mutual Animosities, Jars and Divisions, were to them manifest symptoms of National calamities and desolations; for then Ephraim envied Judah, and Judah vexed Ephraim, Isa. 11.13. Hosea 9.7. The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come, Israel shall know it: The Prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquities, and the great hatred.
When such symptoms of Gods indignation do appear upon any people, the Lord by them, as by so many glazing Meteors and blazing Comets, forewarns the World that his Judgments are near, even at the door. These Signs all men ought to observe and behold with trembling. If you ask why doth God usually give such warnings of his indignation before it comes, the reasons are: 1. To prevent the execution. 2. To make them more tolerable. 3. To leave the incorrigible inexcusable.
When such symptoms of Gods indignation do appear upon any people, the Lord by them, as by so many glazing Meteors and blazing Comets, forewarns the World that his Judgments are near, even at the door. These Signs all men ought to observe and behold with trembling. If you ask why doth God usually give such warnings of his indignation before it comes, the reasons are: 1. To prevent the execution. 2. To make them more tollerable. 3. To leave the incorrigible inexcusable.