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Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep, and to break my heart?
保罗就说：”你们为什么哭泣，使我心碎呢？”
For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
我不但准备被捆绑，就是为主耶稣的名死在耶路撒冷也是甘心。
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Humiliation for our own sins and the due preparation to take up our own cross and follow Christ in a suffering path is the only mark and aim of this tract.
为我们的罪而谦卑，并适当准备背起自己的十字架在受苦的道路上跟随基督，这是本文的唯一标志和目标。
The expectation of and preparation for suffering abates much of the dread and terror by accustoming our thoughts beforehand to it, that we may find it not so grievous, shocking, and intolerable when it comes.
对苦难的预期和准备能减轻许多恐惧和惊恐，因为我们的思想事先已经习惯了它，这样当苦难来临时，我们就不会觉得它如此痛苦、震惊和难以忍受。
Reader, the cup of suffering is a very bitter cup, and it is but needful that we provide something to sweeten it so that we may be able to receive it with thanksgiving.
读者啊，受苦的杯是一个非常苦的杯，我们需要准备一些东西来调和它，使我们能够怀着感恩的心接受它。
What those sweetening ingredients are, and how to prepare them, you will have some direction and help in the following discourse.
关于这些调和的成分是什么，以及如何准备它们，你将在接下来的讨论中得到一些指导和帮助。
It is a blessed and excellent thing for the people of God to be prepared and ready for the hardest services and worst of suffering to which the Lord may call them.
对上帝的子民来说，为主可能召唤他们承担的最艰难的服事和最严重的苦难做好准备是一件蒙福和美好的事。
Beloved, suffering is one of the choicest discoveries of your love to your master Christ—yea, it is such a testimony of love to Him as angels are not capable of.
亲爱的，受苦是你对主基督之爱最珍贵的彰显之一——是的，这是一种连天使都无法做到的对祂的爱的见证。
They show their love by their readiness to do His will in the execution of which they fly as with wings (Ezekiel 1:24) but you only have the happiness of testifying your love for Him by your readiness to suffer for Him.
他们通过准备执行祂的旨意来表明他们的爱，他们飞翔如展翅（以西结书1:24），但只有你有这种福分，可以通过准备为祂受苦来见证你对祂的爱。
Is not this excellent?
这不是很美好吗？
The shoe of preparation to follow Him through thorns and briers, and over rocks and mountains of difficulties and troubles, loves Him indeed.
预备的鞋子跟随祂穿过荆棘和蒺藜，越过困难和苦难的岩石与山脉，这确实是爱祂。
It is not the design of this Manual to scare and affright any man with imaginary dangers, much less to sow jealousies, and foment the discontents of the times; it being a just matter of lamentation that all the tokens of God’s anger produce with many of us no better fruit but bold censures and loud clamours, instead of humiliation for our own sins, and the due preparation to take up our own cross, and follow Christ in a suffering path, which is the only mark and aim of this tract.
本手册的目的不是用想象中的危险来吓唬任何人，更不是播撒嫉妒，煽动对时代的不满；令人哀叹的是，上帝愤怒的所有记号在我们许多人身上只产生了大胆的批评和喧闹的抱怨，而不是为我们自己的罪谦卑，并适当准备背起我们的十字架，在受苦的道路上跟随基督，这才是本文的唯一标志和目标。
Mr. Bradford the martyr, when the keeper’s wife came running into his chamber, saying, ‘O Mr. Bradford, I bring you heavy tidings, for to-morrow you must be burned, your chain is now buying, and presently you must go to Newgate.’
殉道者布拉德福德先生，当狱卒的妻子跑进他的房间说：”哦，布拉德福德先生，我带来了沉重的消息，因为明天你将被火刑，你的锁链正在购买中，而且你必须立即前往纽门监狱。”
He put off his hat, and looking up to heaven, said, O Lord, I thank thee for it; I have looked for this a long time; It comes not suddenly to me, the Lord make me worthy of it.
他脱下帽子，仰望天空说：”主啊，我为此感谢你；我已经期待这一刻很久了；这对我来说并不突然，愿主使我配得上它。”
See in this example the singular advantage of a prepared and ready soul.
从这个例子中可以看到一个准备好的灵魂的独特优势。
TABLE OF CONTENTS
目录
Epistle to the Reader
致读者书
Chapter I: Wherein the text is opened, and the doctrine propounded.
第一章：经文的开启与教义的阐述
Chapter II: Although God takes no delight in afflicting his people, yet he sometimes exposes them to great and grievous sufferings
第二章：虽然神不喜悦折磨他的子民，但有时他会让他们经历重大和痛苦的苦难
Chapter III: God usually forewarns his people of approaching trials and sufferings
第三章：神通常会预先警告他的子民即将来临的试炼和苦难
Chapter IV: Demonstrating the excellency of a prepared heart for the worst of sufferings
第四章：论证为最坏苦难预备心志的美善
Chapter V: A Real Work of Grace Upon the Heart Necessary to fit a Man for Suffering for Christ
第五章：为基督受苦所需的内心真实恩典工作
Chapter VI: The Nature of this Work of Grace, in Which our Habitual Fitness for Suffering Lies
第六章：恩典工作的本质，即我们承受苦难的习惯性预备
Chapter VII: Getting Clear Evidences of this Work of Grace in Us, in Order to Our Readiness for Sufferings
第七章：获得我们里面恩典工作的明确证据，为受苦作预备
Chapter VIII: Discovering the Necessity of an Improved Faith for the Right Management of Sufferings
第八章：发现正确应对苦难所需的进深信心的必要性
Chapter IX: Christian Fortitude in Order to Sufferings is Evinced
第九章：为受苦所需的基督徒刚毅品格的证明
Chapter X: The Necessity of an Heart Mortified to All Earthly and Temporal Enjoyments
第十章：向一切属地和暂时享乐治死己心的必要性
Chapter XI: Suffering Saints Have Insights Into the Methods and Mysteries of Satan’s Temptation
第十一章：受苦圣徒对撒但试探的方法和奥秘的洞察
Chapter XII: Readiness for Sufferings Consists in the Improvement of our Praying Abilities, and Keeping Close with God
第十二章：受苦的预备在于提升祷告能力并与神亲近
Chapter XIII: Going out of Ourselves and Depending as Constantly and entirely Upon the Spirit
第十三章：走出自我，完全持续地依靠圣灵
Chapter XIV: Discovering the Unreadiness of Multitudes of Professors for Suffering-Work
第十四章：发现许多信徒对受苦之工的未预备状态
Chapter XV: The Saints are to Prepare Themselves for Greater Trials
第十五章：圣徒当为更大的试炼做准备
Chapter XVI: Support and Comfort to Poor Trembling Souls
第十六章：对可怜战兢之灵的扶持与安慰