The divine life in three treatises

1. They that walk with God are safest from all destructive sufferings; and shall have none but what are sanctified to their good, Rom. 8. 28. They are near to God, where destruction cometh not; as the Chicken under the wings of the Hen. They walk with him that will not lead them to perdition: that will not neglect them, nor sell them for nought, nor expose them to the will of men and devils, though he may suffer them to be tried for their good. No one can take them out of his hands. Be near to him, and you are safe: The destroyer cannot fetch you thence. He can fetch you (when the time is come) from the side of your merriest companions, and dearest friends; from the presence of the greatest Princes; from the strongest Tower, or most sumptuous Palace, or from your heaps of riches, in your securest health: But he cannot take you from the arms of Christ, nor from under the wings of your Creator's love. [For there is no God like him, in Heaven above, or on the earth beneath, who keepeth Covenant and Mercy with his ⟨p. 271⟩servants, that walk before him with all their heart, 1 King. 8 23.] 1 King. 11. 38. However we are used in our Fathers presence, we are sure it shall be for good in the latter end: For he wanteth neither Power nor Love to deliver us, if he saw deliverance to be best.

1. They that walk with God are safest from all destructive sufferings; and shall have none but what are sanctified to their good, Rom. 8. 28. They are near to God, where destruction cometh not; as the Chicken under the wings of the Hen. They walk with him that will not lead them to perdition: that will not neglect them, nor sell them for nought, nor expose them to the will of men and devils, though he may suffer them to be tryed for their good. No one can take them out of his hands. Be near to him, and you are safe: The destroyer cannot fetch you thence. He can fetch you (when the time is come) from the side of your merriest companions, and dearest friends; from the presence of the greatest Princes; from the strongest Tower, or most sumptuous Pallace, or from your heaps of riches, in your securest health: But he cannot take you from the arms of Christ, nor from under the wings of your Creatours love. [For there is no God like him, in Heaven above, or on the earth beneath, who keepeth Covenant and Mercy with his