The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

9. I will give you some directions for the behaving and carrying of our selves in fleeing and avoiding of danger.

For the first, God doth give leave to his people to flee and to avoid danger (that in the general must be laid as a certain conclusion) you know that of Christ in Math. 10.23. When they persecute you in this City, flee into another. There is leave given and injunction too. It is that which is according to the light of nature, and religion doth not extinguish the light of nature though it shows somewhat above it, and except there come in some other command above nature, we may follow the light of nature, if we do not mistake a false light for a true.

For the first, God doth give leave to his people to flee and to avoid danger (that in the general must be laid as a certaine conclusion) you know that of Christ in Math. 10.23. When they persecute you in this City, flee into another. There is leave given and injunction too. It is that which is according to the light of nature, and religion doth not extinguish the light of nature though it shews somewhat above it, and except there come in some other command above nature, we may follow the light of nature, if we do not mistake a false light for a true.

And further we find it by plentiful example of Gods people, yea Christ himself avoided danger, and fled from it, and therefore he gives leave to it. As Elijah was a man of spirit enough, and yet in 1 Kings, 19.3. He fled for his life. and those Prophets that Obadiah ⟨p. 60⟩