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In the second place, They are such as make a mans salvation very difficult. Even as you have an expression of a righteous man, A righteous man is scarcely saved, 1 Pet. 4.18. For this phrase [So as by fire] is a proverbial expression, to denote the extreme danger a man is in, and yet escapes, as those three Worthies in the fiery furnace. Thus Jude vers. 23. speaking to this purpose of many people led aside with errors, saith, Save them with fear, pulling them out of the fire. They were in as great danger as a child fallen in the fire, whom the father pulleth out with great fear and amazement. Thus Joshua, Zech. 3.2. is said to ⟨p. 186⟩be a fire-brand pulled out of the fire; that is, delivered from great and imminent dangers. The same expression is, Amos 4.11. Ye were as a fire-brand plucked out of the fire; he speaketh of such who had escaped the pub•ick judgements o• God upon them. This proverb the Latins and Grecians also have, e slammâ cibum petere.

In the second place, They are such as make a mans salvation very difficult. Even as you have an expression of a righteous man, A righteous man is scarcely saved, 1 Pet. 4.18. For this phrase [So as by fire] is a proverb•al expression, to denote the extream danger a man is in, and yet escapes, as those three Worthies in the fiery furnace. Thus Jude vers. 23. speaking to this purpose of many people led aside with errours, saith, Save them with fear, pulling them out of the fire. They were in as great danger as a child fallen in the fire, whom the father pulleth out with great fear and amazement. Thus Joshua, Zech. 3.2. is said to