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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.
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, Jer. 24. 5. In these outward respects it often times bears as hard upon the righteous as upon the wicked. Ezek▪ 21. 3. I will draw forth my sword out of his Sheath and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. ⟨p. 151⟩In these outward respects as it is with the good, so with the sinner, Eccles. 9. 2. The same fire that burns the dry tree, oftentimes burns the green tree too.