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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
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.
This Chapter, though full of excellent and seasonable truths, will be too long to Analyze; it shall suffice to search back only to the 17 verse, where you find the poor captived Church under despondency of mind, comparing her condition to that of a woman in travail, who hath many sharp pains, and bitter throws, yet cannot be delivered, much like that in 2 Kings 19. 3. The children are come to the birth and there is no strength to bring forth.
This Chapter, though full of excellent and seasonable truths, will be too long to Analize; it shall suffice to search back only to the 17 verse, where you find the poor captived Church under despondency of mind, comparing her co•dition to that of a woman in travail, who hath many sharp pains, and bitter throws, yet cannot be delivered, much like that in 2 Kings 19. 3. The children are come to the birth and there is no strength to bring forth.
Against this discouragement a double relief is applied in the following Verses, the one is a Promise of full deliverance at last; the other an Invitation into a sure Sanctuary and place of defence for present, until the time of their full deliverance came. The promise we have in verse 19. Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise; awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust, &c. Their captivity was a civil death, and Babylon as a grave to them, So it is elsewhere described, Ezek. 37. v. 1, 3, 12. ⟨p. 140⟩I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel. And therefore their deliverance is carried under the notion of a resurrection in that promise.
Against this discouragement a double relief is applyed in the following Verses, the one is a Promise of full deliverance at last; the other an Invitation into a sure Sanctuary and place of defence for present, until the time of their full deliverance came. The promise we have in verse 19. Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise; awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust, &c. Their captivity was a civil death, and Babylon as a grave to them, So it is elsewhere described,