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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.
The men that had charge over the City are the Angels appointed for that Service, some with slaughter weapons whose work it was to destroy, but one among them had a writers inkhorn by his side, and he was employed to take the names, and mark the persons of Gods faithful ones among them, whom the Lord intended to preserve and hide in that common overthrow and desolation of the City, and these were to be all marked man by man before the destroying Angel was to begin his bloody work. Oh see the tender care of God over his upright mourning servants! Once more, the same truth is represented in a third Emblem ⟨p. 158⟩Mal. 3. 17. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord, in the day that I make up my jewels, and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Where the world is compared to an house on fire; God to the master, and father of the family; the wicked to the useless lumber therein; the Saints to the children and jewels in the house; about these his first and principal care of preservation is exercised, these he will be sure to save, whatever become of the rest. Thus you have the chosen Emblems that illustrate this comfortable truth.
The men that had charge over the City are the Angels appointed for that Service, some with slaughter weapons whose work it was to destroy, but one among them had a writers inkhorn by his side, and he was imployed to take the names, and mark the persons of Gods faithful ones among them, whom the Lord intended to preserve and hide in that common overthrow and desolation of the City, and these were to be all marked man by man before the destroying Angel was to begin his bloudy work. Oh see the tender care of God over his upright mourning servants! Once more, the same truth is represented in a third Emblem ⟨p. 158⟩Mal. 3. 17. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord, in the day that I make up my jewels, and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Where the world is compared to an house on fire; God to the master, and father of the family; the wicked to the useless lumber therein; the Saints to the children and jewels in the house; about these his first and principal care of preservation is exercised, these he will be sure to save, whatever become of the rest. Thus you have the chosen Emblems that illustrate this comfortable truth.