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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.
2. The privilege invited to; Enter thou into thy chambers. There is some variety, and indeed variety rather than contrariety in the exposition of these words.
2. The priviledge invited to; Enter thou into thy chambers. There is some variety, and indeed variety rather than contrariety in the exposition of these words.
In this all are agreed, that by their Chambers,1 is not meant the Chambers of their own houses; for alas, their houses were left unto them desolate; and if not, yet they could be no security to them now, when neither their own houses nor their fortified city was able to defend them before.
Grotius expounds it of the Grave, and makes these Chambers the same Grot. in loc. with the Chambers of death. Ite in cubiqula, h. e. sepulchra vestra. The grave indeed is a place of security where God sometimes hides some of his people in troublesome times, as is plain in Isa. 57. 1, 2. but I cannot allow this to be the sense of this Text; God doth not comfort his captives with a natural against a civil death, but with protection in their troubles upon earth, as is evident from the scope of the whole Chapter.
Grotius expounds it of the Grave, and makes these Chambers the same Grot. in loc. with the Chambers of death. Ite in cubiqula, h. e. sepulchra vestra. The grave indeed is a place of security where God sometimes hides some of his people in troublesome times, as is plain in