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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.
Two things must here be cleared. 1. That it is so. 2. Why it is so.
1. That it is so will appear from, 1. Scripture Emblems. 2. Scripture Promises. 3. Scripture Instances.
1. Scripture Emblems, and among many, I will upon this occasion single out two or three principal ones. In Ezek. 5. 1, 2, 3. And thou son of […] take thee a sharp knife, take thee a Barbers razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard, then take the balances to weigh and divide the hair; thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the City, when the days of the siege are fulfilled, and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife, and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them: Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. You find this truth shadowed out in this excellent Emblem; Jerusalem the capital City is the head, the numerous inhabitants are the hair, the ⟨p. 157⟩King of Babylon the Razor, the weighing it in balances, is the exactness of Gods procedure in Judgment with them; the fire, knife, and wind, are the various judgments to which the people were appointed; the hiding of a few in the Prophets skirt, is the care of God for the preservation of his own remnant in the common calamity, this is one Emblem clearing this point. And then, in Ezek. 9. 3, 4. the same truth is presented to us in another Emblem, as lively and significant as the former. And behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand, and one among them was clothed in linen with a writers inkhorn by his side, and they went in and stood before the brazen Altar; and the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the Cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of his house, and he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writers inkhorn by his side, And the Lord said unto him, go through the midst of the City, through the midst of Jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.