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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. 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.
The Unchangeableness of God will appear three ways. ⟨p. 222⟩1. By Scripture Emblems. 2. By Scripture Assertions. 3. By convincing Arguments.
1. By Scripture Emblems, remarkable to this purpose is that place, Jam. 1. 17. where God is called The Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. No variableness the word is, [Greek or Hebrew], an Astronomical term, commonly applied to the Heavenly Bodies which have their Parallaxes, i. e. their Declinations, Revolutions, Vicissitudes, Eclipses, Increases and Decreases; but God is a Sun that never rises nor sets, but is everlastingly and unchangeably one and the same; with him is no variableness nor shadow of turning, [Greek or Hebrew]. The Sun in its Zenith casts no shadow, it is the Tropic, or turning of its course, that causes the shadow; the very substance of turning is with man; but not the least shadow of turning with God. And in