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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 5: 5. 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.
Patmos was a barren Island, and place designed for banished persons;1 it lay in the Aegean Sea, not far from the coast of the Lesser Asia: it was inhabited by none because of the exceeding barrenness of it, but such who were appointed to it for their punishment; so that here John could meet with no more earthly refreshment, than what the barren rocks, or wild and desperate persons condemned to live upon it, could afford: Ay, but there, there it was that Christ appeared to him in unexpressible glory; there it was that he had those ravishing visions, and saw the whole Scheme of Providence in the Government of this world, there he saw the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, as a bride prepared for her husband; This made a Patmos become a Paradise: never did any place afford him such comfort as this did. So that Christians may not think there is so strict and necessary a connection betwixt Liberty and Comfort, that he that takes away the first, must needs deprive them of the other.
Patmos was a barren Island, and• place designed for banished persons;1 it lay in the Aegean Sea, not far from the coast of the Lesser Asia: it was inhabited by none because of the exceeding barrenness of it, but such who were appointed to it for their punishment; so that here Iohn could meet with no more earthly refreshment, than what the barren rocks, or wild and desperate persons condemned to live upon it, could afford: Ay, but there, there it was that Christ appeared to him in unexpressible glory; there it was that he had those ravishing visions, and saw the whole Scheme of Providence in the Government of this world, there he saw the New Ierusalem coming down from God out of heaven, as a bride prepared for her husband; This made a Patmos become a Paradice: never did any place afford him such comfort as this did. So that Christians may not think there is so strict and necessary a connection betwixt Liberty and Comfort, that he that takes away the first, must needs deprive them of the other.