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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
THE RIGHTEOUS MAN'S REFUGE, &c. › Chapter 3THE RIGHTEOVS MAN'S REFUGE, &c. › Chapter 3
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.
CHAP. III.
Opening and confirming the second Proposition, viz. That Gods own people are much concerned in, and ought to be suitably affected with, those Judgments that befall the Nation wherein they live.
Opening and confirming the second Proposition, viz. That Gods own people are much concerned in, and ought to be suitably affected with, those Iudgments that befal the Nation wherein they live.
SECT. I.
IF Gods people have no concernment in these things, why are they called upon in this Text, to run into their chambers, hide themselves, and shut their doors, till the indignation be overpast? Certainly though God hath better provided for them than others, yet they are two ways concerned in these cases as much as others. Viz. Account. 1. Upon a Political 2. Upon a Religious
1. Upon a Political account, as they are members of the community, and so are equally concerned in the good or evil that befall the Nation in which they live, their Cabins must follow the fate of the Ship in which they Sail, their Lives, Liberties, Estates, and Interest sink and swim with the public. The good figs were carried away with the bad,