A39696:618
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. The Wisdom of God discovers it self in behalf of that people who are his own, in diverting the danger from them, and putting by the deadly thrusts their enemies make at them; thus it spoils their game by an unforeseen rub in the green, and that especially three ways.
1. By making their counsels to jar among themselves, in which jars is the sweetest harmony of providence; thus the counsel of Ahithophel jars with the counsel of Hushai, 2 Sam. 17. 5. 7. by which means David escaped: the Pharisees clashed with the Sadducees, Acts 23. 7. and by that means Paul escaped.
2. By cutting out other work, and starting some new design which like a fresh scent puts the dogs to a ⟨p. 197⟩loss. Thus the people of God in Jerusalem were delivered by a diversion, 2 Kings 19. 7. Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour and shall return to his own land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land, so Rabshakeh returned. By this means also was David delivered from the hand of Saul, 1 Sam. 23. 27. And in this method of Providence, that Scripture is often fulfilled, Prov. 21. 18. The wicked shall be a ransom for the Righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.