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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.
SECT. I.
The next Chamber of Divine Protection into which I shall lead you, is the Infinite Wisdom of God; I call it the next, because I so find it placed in Scripture, Job 36. 5. He is mighty in power and wisdom. Dan. 2. 20. Wisdom and might are his.
THe next Chamber of Divine Protection into which I shall lead you, is the Infinite Wisdom of God; I call it the next, because I so find it placed in Scripture, Iob 36. 5. He is mighty in power and wisdom. Dan. 2. 20. Wisdom and might are his.
This Attribute may be fitly called the Council Chamber of Heaven, where all things are contrived in deepest wisdom, which are afterwards wrought in the world by power, Eph. 1. 11. He worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Counsel in the Creature implies weakness and defect; we are not able at one thought to fathom the depth of a business, and therefore must deliberate and spend many thoughts about it, and when we have spent all our own thoughts we are oft times at a loss, and must borrow help, and ask counsel of others; but in ⟨p. 191⟩God it notes the perfection of his understanding, for as those acts of the creature which are the results of deliberation and counsel, are the height and top of all rational contrivement; so in its accommodation to God, it notes the excellent results of his infinite and most perfect understanding.