A Saint Indeed Part 3: How to Keep The Heart in Time of Zion's Troubles

How to Keep The Heart in Time of Zion's Trouble.

Here, Zion is a name for the True Church; that is, the Church of God's Elect.
"The third season calling for more than ordinary diligence to keep the heart, is the time of Zion's troubles: when the Church, like the ship in which Christ and his disciples were, is oppressed and ready to perish in the waves of persecution; then good souls are ready to sink, and be shipwrecked too, upon the billows of their own fears. I confess most men rather need the spur, than the reins in this case, and yet some sit down as overweighed with the sense of the church's troubles.

Flavel gives directions on how to approach this.

Narrated by Duane Linn