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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.
1. By these calamities God will mortify and purge their corruptions; this Winter weather shall be useful to destroy and rot those rank weeds, which the Summer of prosperity bred, Isa. 27. 9. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged. Physic in its own nature is griping and unpleasant; but very useful and necessary to purge the body from noxious and malignant humours, which retained may put life it self in hazard; and it is with the body Politic, as with the body Natural.
1. By these calamities God will mortifie and purge their corruptions; this Winter weather shall be useful to destroy and rot those rank weeds, which the Summer of prosperity bred, Isa. 27. 9. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged. Physick in its own nature is griping and unpleasant; but very useful and necessary to purge the body from noxious and malignant humours, which retained may put life it self in hazard; and it is with the body Politick, as with the body Natural.
2. National Judgments drive the people of God nearer to him, and one to another, they drive the people of God to their knees, and make them pray more frequently, more fervently, and more feelingly than they were wont to do; in this posture you find them in ver. 8, 9. of this Chapter. Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee, the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. With my soul have I desired thee in the night, yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early.
3. In a word, by these distractions and distresses of Nations, the people of God are more weaned from the world, and made to long more vehemently after ⟨p. 149⟩