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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.
2. If you be Believers, your relation to God strongly engageth his power for you, as well as his own promises, Surely (saith God) they are my people, children that will not lie; so he became their Saviour, Isa. 63. 8. We say Relations have the least of Entity, but the greatest of efficacy; you find it so in your own experience, let a wife, child, or friend be in eminent danger, and it shall engage all the power you have to succour and deliver them.
3. This glorious power of God is engaged for you by the very malice and wickedness of your enemies, who will be apt to impute the ruin of the Saints to the defects of power in their God; from whence those excellent arguments are drawn, Numb. 14. 15, 16. Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man then the nations which have heard the fame of thee, will speak, saying, because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land, which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. And again, Deut. 32. 26, 27. you shall find the Lord improving this argument for them himself; if they do not plead it for themselves, he will. I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men, were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, left their adversaries should behave themselves strangely and lest they should say, our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this. O see how much you are beholding to the very rage of your enemies for your deliverances from them▪
3. This glorious power of God is engaged for you by the very malice and wickedness of your enemies, who will be apt to impute the ruine of the Saints to the defects of power in their God; from whence those excellent arguments are drawn, Numb. 14. 15, 16. Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man then the nations which have heard the fame of thee, will speak, saying, because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land, which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. And again,