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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. All that are preserved are not the people of God; in the Ark a wicked Ham was preserved and those that were preserved in Egypt, many of them were afterwards destroyed for their unbelief. Jud. 5. So in Ezekiel's vision, a part even of those hairs which were spared, were afterwards cast into the fire, Ezek 5. 4. Preservation from the dominion of sin, and the wrath to come, is peculiar to Gods own people; but as for temporal deliverances we cannot infer that conclusion.
1. All that are preserved are not the people of God; in the Ark a wicked Cham was preserved and those that were preserved in Egypt, many of them were afterwards destroyed for their unbelief. Iud. 5. So in Ezekiel's vision, a part even of those hairs which were spared, were afterwards cast into the fire, Ezek 5. 4. Preservation from the dominion of sin, and the wrath to come, is peculiar to Gods own people; but as for temporal deliverances we cannot infer that conclusion.
2. Nor yet can we say that all Gods people shall be preserved; that promise Zeph. 2. 3. leaves it upon a may be, many a precious Christian hath fallen in the common calamity, they have been preserved in, but not from trouble.
But it is usual with God to preserve some in the sorest judgments: And the grounds of it are,