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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B36604	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.	Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.	1681 (1681)		85,227	160

after praying and striving to obtain but ah how few attain it Certainly there are not many among the multitude of Professors of this Generation that can say as Paul here did I am ready to be bound or to die for Christ CHAP. II. Shews that although God takes no delight in afflicting his people yet he sometimes exposeth them to great and grievous Sufferings with a brief account why and how he calls them thereunto THe Mercies and Compassions of God over his people are exceeding great and tender Psal 103.14 Like as a Father pitieth his Children so the Lord pitieth them that fear him he delights not in afflicting and grieving them Lam. 3.33 He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the Children of men The Scripture intimates to us a seeming Conflict betwixt the Justice and Mercy of God when he is about to deliver up his people into their Enemies hands Hosea 11.8 9. How shall I give thee up Ephraim How shall I deliver thee Israel How shall I make thee as Adma How shall I set thee as Zeboim Mine heart is turned within me my repentings are kindled together Which shews us with what reluctance and great unwillingness the Lord goes about such work as this the work of Judgment is his strange work it pleases him better to exercise the milder Attribute of Mercy towards his Children Hence we find when he is preparing to execute his Judgments that he delays the execution as long as the honour of his Name and safety of his people will permit Jer. 44.22 He bears till he can bear no longer he often turns away his wrath from them Psal 78.38 39. He tryes them by lesser Judgments and gentler Corrections to prevent greater Amos 4.6 When his people are humbled under the threatnings of his wrath his heart is melted into compassion to them Jer. 31.17 20. And when ever his Mercy prevails against Judgment it is with joy and triumph Jam. 2.13 Mercy rejoyceth against Judgment For he feels his own tender compassions yerning over them he foreseeth and is no way willing to gratifie the insulting pride of his and their Enemies Deut. 32.26 27. I said I would scatter them into corners I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men were it not that I feared the wrath of the Enemy lest their Adversaries should behave themselves strangely c. Yet all this notwithstanding it often falls out by the provocations of his Sons and Daughters that the Lord gives them up into the hands of their Enemies for the correction of their evils and the manifestation of his own glory Seneca though a Heathen could say that God loves his people with a Masculine love not with a Womanish Indulgence and Tenderness If need require they shall be in heaviness through manifold temptations 1 Pet. 1.6 He had rather their hearts should be heavy under adversity than vain and careless under prosperity the choicest Spirits have been exercised with the sharpest sufferings and those that now shine as Stars in Heaven have been trod under foot as Dung on the Earth 1 Cor. 4.11 Vnto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and buffeted and have no certain dwelling places and labour working with our hands being reviled we bless being persecuted we suffer it being defamed we entreat we are made as the filth of the world and the off-scouring of all things unto this day The eleventh Chapter to the Hebrews is a Compendium of the various and grievous sufferings of the Primitive Saints They were tortured they were sawn asunder were tempted were slain with the Sword they wandred about in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins being afflicted destitute tormented of whom the world was not worthy they wandred in Desarts and in Mountains in Dens and Caves of the Earth And since the Earth had dried up those Rivers of precious blood whereof the Sacred Records make mention what Seas of Christian blood have since those days been shed by bloody Persecutors Histories inform us that in the ten Primitive Persecutions so many of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus have been slain as that you may allow five thousand a day to every day in the whole Year Those bloody Emperours sported themselves with the deaths of Gods dearest Saints many precious Christians were burnt by night at Rome to serve as Torches to light their Enemies in their passage through the Streets eight hundred thousand Martyrs are mentioned within the space of thirty Years since the Jesuits arose out of the Bottomless Pit To what grievous Sufferings did the Lord give up those precious Servants of Christ the Waldenses and Albigenses who received the Light of Reformation about the Year 1260. when the Fogs of Antichristian Darkness had overspread the Earth a People sound in Judgment as appears by their Letters Catechismes and Confessions which are extant a People of a simple plain and inoffensive behaviour yet with what fury and rage did that impious Pope Pius prosecute them to destruction driving them into the Woods and Mountains except the Aged and Children that could not flee who were murdered in the way Some famished in the Caves and Clefts of the Rocks others endured the Rack for eight hours together some beaten with Iron Rods others thrown from the tops of high Towers and broken to pieces What bloody Shambles and Slaughter-houses have France Ireland and England been made by Popish cruelty More might be related out of each Story than a tender-hearted Reader is able to bear the rehearsal of But what God hath done he may do again we are not better than our Fathers dismal Clouds of indignation are gathering over our heads charged with double destruction should the Lord please to make them break upon us we cannot imagine the rage of Satan to be abated now that his Kingdom hastens to its period Rev. 12.12 nor are his Instruments grown less cruel and skilful to destroy The Land indeed hath enjoyed a long rest and this Generation is acquainted with little more of Martyrdom than what the Histories of former times inform us of but yet let no man befool himself with a groundless expectation of a continuing tranquillity Augustin thinks that the Bloody Sweat which over-ran the Body of Christ in the Garden signified the sharp and grievous Sufferings which in his Mystical Body he should afterwards endure and indeed it is a truth that these are also called the Remains of Christs Sufferings Col. 1.24 His Personal Sufferings were indeed compleated at his Resurrection that Cup was full to the brim to which no drop of Suffering can be added but his Sufferings in his Mystical Body are not yet full by his Personal Sufferings he fully satisfied the wrath of God but the Sufferings of his People have not yet satisfied the wrath of men though Millions of precious Saints have shed their blood for Christ whose Souls are now crying under the Altar How long Lord how long Yet there are many more coming on behind in the same