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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.
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 Professours bewailed.
By John Flavel Minister of Christ in Devon.
Amos 4.12. Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel, and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
Sapienti meliora sunt in votis, deteriora vero in expectatione, Plut. de Tranquil.
Gravius est vulnus quod non expectatur, & illa aegrius tollerantur quibus homo se non prius assuefecit, Augustine.