A39696:707
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. Natural, let in by the fall upon all the Creation; by reason whereof the sweetest Creature is but a fading flower, Psal. 102. 26. Time like a Moth frets out the best wrought garment with which we clothe and deck our selves in this World, temporalia rapit tempus. Our most pleasant enjoyments, Wives, Children, Estates, like the Gourd in which Jonah so delighted himself, may wither in a night; Sin rings these changes all the world over.
1. Natural, let in by the fall upon all the Crea•ion; by reason whereof the sweetest Creature is but a fading flower, Psal. 102. 26. Time like a Moth frets out the best wrought garment with which we cloath and deck our selves in this World, temporalia rapit tempus. Our most pleasant enjoyments, Wives, Children, Estates, like the Gourd in which Ionas so delighted himself, may wither in a night; Sin rings these changes all the world over.
2. Sinful, from the falseness, inconstancy, deceitfulness of the Creature; Solomon puts a hard question which may pose the whole World to answer it, Prov. 20. 6. A faithful man who can find? The meaning is a man of perfect and universal Faithfulness, is a Phoenix seldom or never to be found in this world; for when a question in Scripture is moved and let fall again without any answer, then the sense is Negative; but though the believer despair of finding an unchangeable man, it is his happiness and comfort to find an Unchangeable God.
2. Sinful, from the falseness, inconstancy, deceitfulness of the Creature; Solomon puts a hard question which may pose the whole World to answer it, Prov. 20. 6. A faithful man who can find? The meaning is a man of perfect and universal Faithfulness, is a Phoenix seldom or never to be found in this world; for when a question in Scripture is moved and let fall again without any answer, then the sence is Negative; but though the believer despair of finding an unchangeable man, it is his happiness and comfort to find an Unchangeable God.