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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.
4. The Unchangeable God hath secured his loving kindness to his people by Promise under all the trials, and smarting rods of affliction, with which he chastens them in this world; he hath reserved to himself the liberty of afflicting them, but bound himself by promise never to remove his favour from them, Psal. 89. 33, 34. I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes, nevertheless my loving kindness will I not take from them, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
4. The Unchangeable God hath secured his loving kindness to his people by Promise under all the trials, and smarting rods of affliction, with which he chastens them in this world; he hath reserved to himself the liberty of afflicting them, but bound himself by promise never to remove his favour from them, Psal. 89. 33, 34. I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with siripes, nevertheless my loving kindness will I not take from them, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
5. The Promises of a joyful resurrection from the dead are grounded upon the Immutability of God, Matth. 22. 32. I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; God is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. Death hath made a great change upon them, but none upon their God; though they be not, he is still the same, therefore they are not lost in death; but shall assuredly be found again in the resurrection.
6. To conclude, the promises of the Saints eternal happiness with God in Heaven, are founded in his Immutability,