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lord_n	dare_v	young_a	youth_n	34	3	8.0679	4	false

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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

Father but they are all mercies purchased and paid for and therefore fear not the failing of your Graces 5. From the Spirit of Christ which dwelleth and abideth in thee and hath begun his saving work upon thee I say saving for else it would afford no argument His common works on Hypocrites come to nothing but in thee they cannot fail For 1. His Honour is pawned and ingaged to perfect it That reproach of the foolish Builder shall never lye upon him that he began to build but could not finish Besides this would irritate and void all that the Father and the Son have done for thee both their works are compleat and perfect in their kinds and the Spirit is the last efficient in order of working 2. Besides the Grace he hath already wrought in thee may give thee yet further and fuller assurance of its preservation inasmuch as it hath the nature of a Seal Pledge and Earnest of the whole Rom. 8.23 2 Cor. 1.22 So that it cannot fail 6. From those multitudes of Assertory Promissory and Comparative Scriptures the rich veins whereof run through the Book of God as so many streams to refresh thy Soul Of Assertory Scriptures see John 6.39 John 10.28 1 John 2.19 Of Promissory Scriptures see Issa 54.10 Jer. 34.40 1 Cor. 1.8 c. Of Comparative Scriptures see Psal 1.3 Psal 125. 1. John 4.14 c. The principal scope of all which is to shew the indefectible nature of true Grace in the Saints And now how should this refresh thy drooping Soul make thee gird up the loyns of thy mind since thou dost not run as one uncertain neither fightest as one that beats the Air 1 Cor. 9.26 but art so secured from total Apostacy as thou seest thou art by all these things O bless ye the Lord. But the Lord seems to be departed from my Soul Ob. 2 God is afar off from me and troubles are near I seem to be in such a case as Saul was when the Philistines made war upon him and God was departed from him and therefore I shall fall Not so Sol. for there are two sorts of Divine desertions The one is absolute when the Lord utterly forsakes his Creatures so that they shall never behold his face more The other is limited and respective and so he forsook his own Son and often doth his own Elect And of this kind some are only Cautional to prevent sin some are meerly Probational to try Grace and others Castigatory to chastise our negligence and carelesness Now though I have not a word of comfort to speak in the case of total and absolute Desertions yet of the latter which doubtless is thy case much may be said by way of support be it of which of the three sorts it will or in what degree it will For 1. This hath been the case of many precious Souls Psal 22.1 2. Psal 77.2 Psal 88.9 Job 13.24 25 26. This was poor Mr. Glovers case as you will find in his Story and it continued till he came within sight of the Stake therefore no new or strange thing hath happened to you 2. The Lord by this will advantage thee for perseverance not only as they are cautional against sin but as they make thee hold Christ the faster and prize his † Cam. 3.4 Presence at an higher rate when he shall please graciously to manifest himself to thee again 3. This shall not abide for ever it 's but a little Cloud and will blow over It is but for a moment and that moments Darkness ushers in everlasting Light Isa 54.7 Yea lastly The light of Gods Countenance shall not only be restored Certainly but it shall be restored Seasonably when thy Darkness is greatest thy trouble 's at the highest and thy hopes lowest He is a God of Judgment and knows how to time his own mercies Psa 138.3 But I am a weak Woman Ob. 3 or a young Person how shall I be able to confess Christ before Rulers and look great ones in the face Christ delights to make his Power known in such Sol. 2 Cor. 12.9 for he affects not Social glory 2. Thou shalt be holden up for God is able to make thee stand Rom. 14.4 Thou that art sensible of thine own infirmity mayest run to that Promise 3. Such poor weak Creatures shall endure when stronger if Self-confident fall Isa 40.30 31. Even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men utterly fall but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength They shall mount up with wings as Eagles run and not be weary walk and not faint Youths and young men are bold daring and confident persons that trust to their own strength to whom such as wait upon the Lord stand here opposed They shall faint but these shall renew their strength Art thou one that waitest and dependest upon an All-sufficient God in the sense of thine own weakness This Promise then is for thee 4. You may furnish your selves at pleasure with Examples of the mighty Power of God resting upon such as you are out of our own Martyrology Thomas Drowry the poor blind Boy Fox Vol. 3. p. 703. What a presence of Spirit was with him when examined by the Chancellor Eulalia a Virgin of about twelve years of age see how she was acted above those years yea above the power of Nature Fox Vol. 1. p. 120. Tender Women yea Children act above themselves when assisted by a strong God And thus you have some help offered you by a weak hand in your present and most important work The Lord carry home all with Power upon your hearts that if God call you to suffer for him you may say as Paul did I am now ready to be offered up and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which God the Righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but to them also which love his appearing 2 Tim. 4.6 And as you expect so to finish your course with joy be diligent in the use of all means to prepare and make your selves ready to follow the Call of God whether it be to Bonds or to Death for the Name of the Lord Jesus FINIS