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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. Warning is given with design to prevent the execution of judgments; this is plain from Amos 4. 12. Therefore will I do this unto thee; there is warning given; and because I will do this, prepare to meet thy God O Israel: There is the gracious design of preventing it, by bringing them seasonably upon their knees at the foot of an angry God: You see the Lord expects it from all his Children, that they fall at his feet in deep humiliation, and fervent intercession whenever he goes forth in the way of judgment. What else was the design of God in sending Jonah to Nineveh with that dreadful message but to excite them to repentance, and prevent their ruin? This Jonah guessed at, and therefore declined the message to secure his credit, well knowing, that if they took warning and repented, the gracious nature of God would soon melt into compassion over them: Free grace would make him appear as a liar among the people; for to that sense his own words sound, Jonah 4. 2. Was not this my saying when I was yet in ⟨p. 170⟩my Country, Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish, for I knew that thou art a gracious God. q. d. I thought before hand it would come to this; I knew how willing thou art to be prevented by repentance; therefore to secure my credit, I fled to Tarshish.
1. Warning is given with design to prevent the execution of judgments; this is plain from Amos 4. 12. Therefore will I do this unto thee; there is warning given; and because I will do this, prepare to meet thy God O Israel: There is the gracious design of preventing it, by bringing them seasonably upon their knees at the foot of an angry God: You see the Lord expects it from all his Children, that they fall at his feet in deep humiliation, and fervent intercession whenever he goes forth in the way of judgment. What else was the design of God in sending Ionah to Nineveh with that dreadful message but to excite them to repentance, and prevent their ruine? This Ionah guessed at, and therefore declined the message to secure his credit, well knowing, that if they took warning and repented, the gracious nature of God would soon melt into compassion over them: Free grace would make him appear as a liar among the people; for to that sense his own words sound,