Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…

Objection. Yea, (might they reply) the hopes of deliverance at last is some comfort, but alas, that may be far off: How shall we subsist till then?

Sol. Well enough, for as you have in that promise a sure ground of deliverance at last, so in the interim here is a gracious Invitation into a place of security for the present, Come my people, enter thou into thy chambers. In which invitation Four things call for our close attention.

1. The Form of the invitation, including in it the qualified subject, Come my people. Gods own peculiar people, who have chosen God for their portion, and resigned up themselves sincerely to him in the Covenant, are the persons here invited, the same which he before called the righteous nation that kept the truth, verse 2. he means •hose that remained faithful to God (as many of them did) in Babylon, witness their sorrow for Zion, Psal. 137 per totum; and their solemn Appeal to God that their hearts were not turned back, nor had their steps declined though they were •ore broken in the place of Dragons, and covered with the shadow of death, Psal. 44. 18, 19, 20. These are the people invited to the chambers of security. And the form of invitation is full of tender compassion, Come my people; like a tender father that sees a storm coming upon his children in the fields, and takes them by the hand, saying, Come away my dear children, hasten home with me le•t the storm overtake you, or as the Lord said to Noah before the Deluge, Come thou and all thy house into the Ark, and God shut him in,