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Seasonable Counsel: By J O H N.B U N Y A N. L O N D O N, Printed for Benjamin Alsop, at the Angel and Bible in the Poultry, 1684. Published four years before John Bunyan's death. |
[SECOND—A DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSONS WHO ARE DIRECTED TO COMMIT THE KEEPING OF THEIR
SOULS TO GOD.]
shall now come to the second thing contained in the text, namely,
to give you a more distinct description of the men that are thus bid to commit the
keeping of their souls to God. And they are thus described: they that "suffer
according to the will of God." "Let them that suffer according to the will
of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well-doing, as unto a faithful
Creator."
Two things are here to be inquired into. FIRST, What the apostle here means by the
will of God. SECOND, What suffering according to the will of God is.
FIRST, For the will of God, it is divers ways taken in the scriptures; as, sometimes,
for electing, justifying, sanctifying acts of God; sometimes for faith, good life,
and sometimes for suffering for his name (Rom 9; Eph 1:11; John 7:17; 1 John 3:23;
1 Thess 4:3; Matt 7:21). But, by will of God here we must, First, Understand HIS
LAW AND TESTAMENT. Second, HIS ORDER AND DESIGNMENT.
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