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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.
IT is said, Prov. 9. 1. Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewen out her seven pillars. (i. e.) She hath raised her whole building upon solid and stable foundations, for indeed the strength of every building is according to the ground work upon which it is erected, Debile fundamentum fallit opus. The Wisdom and Love of God have built an house for a Refuge and Sanctuary to Believers in tempestuous and evil times, containing many pleasant and comfortable Chambers prepared for their lodgings, till the calamities be over-past; three of them have been already opened, viz. The Power, Wisdom, and Faithfulness of God.
The last of which leads into a fourth much like unto it, namely the Unchangeableness of God; wherein his people may find as much rest and comfort amidst the vicissitudes of this unstable World, as in any of the former. This World is compared, Rev. 15. 2. to A sea of glass mingled with fire. A Sea for ⟨p. 221⟩its turbulency and instability, a Sea of glass for the brittleness and frailty of every thing in it; and a Sea of glass mingled with fire, to represent the sharp sufferings and fiery trials, with which the Saints are exercised here below. The only support and comfort we have against the fickleness and instability of the Creature, is the Unchangeableness of God. There is a two-fold changeableness in the Creature: 1. Natural, the effect of Sin. 2. Sinful, in its own Nature.