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Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…
Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part of the 14 : the second, The righteous man's refuge in the evil day, from Isaiah 26, verse 20 / by John Flavell.
London: printed by H.H. for Robert Boulter, 1682
A PRACTICAL TREATISE OF Fear, &c. › Chapter 6 › Section 1 › Subsection 4: 4. Rule.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. In God there is all that your hearts can desire to encourage you to trust him over all, and commit all into his hands. For,
1. He is able to help and relieve you, let the case be never so bad, yet let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is plenteous redemption Psal. 130. 7, 8. Plenteous redemption (i. e.) all the stores of power, choice of methods, plenty of means, abundance of ways to save his people, when they can see no way out of their troubles: Therefore hope Israel in Jehovah.
1. He is able to help and relieve you, let the case be never so bad, yet let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is plenteous redemption Psal. 130. 7, 8. Plenteous redemption (i. e.) all the stores of power, choice of methods, plenty of means, abundance of ways to save his people, when they can see no way out of their troubles: Therefore hope Israel in Iehovah.
2. As his Power is Almighty, so his Wisdom is ⟨p. 86⟩Infinite and unsearchable, He is a God of judgment, blessed are all they that wait for him, Isa. 30. 18. When the Apostle Peter had related the wonderful preservations of Noah in the Deluge, and of Lot in Sodom; one in a general destruction of the world by Water, and the other in the overthrow of those Cities by Fire: He concludes, and so should we, The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation,