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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.
1. Consider how constant, firm, and unchangeable God hath been to his people in all times and straits; not one among the many thousands of his people that are passed on before you, but by frequent and certain experience have found him so. What a singular encouragement should this be to our Faith in the case before us? Psal. 9. 10. They that know thy name, will put their trust in thee, for thou Lord hast not forsaken them that seek thee. So Isa. 25. 4. Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as the storm against the wall. Neither is there any thing in your experience contradictory to the encouraging reports others have made of God; you must acknowledge, that notwithstanding your own changeableness who have hardly been able to maintain ⟨p. 233⟩your hearts in any Spiritual frame towards God for one day together, yet his mercies towards you have been new every morning, and great hath been his Faithfulness: You have often turned aside from the way of your duty, and have not followed God in a steady course of obedience, and yet for all that, his goodness and mercy have followed you all the days of your life, as it is Psal. 23. 6.
1. Consider how constant, firm, and unchangeable God hath been to his people in all times and streights; not one among the many thousands of his people that are passed on before you, but by frequent and certain experience have found him so. What a singular encouragement should this be to our Faith in the case before us? Psal. 9. 10. They that know thy name, will put their trust in thee, for thou Lord hast not forsaken them that seek thee. So Isa. 25. 4. Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shaddow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as the storm against the wall. Neither is there any thing in your experience contradictory to the encouraging reports others have made of God; you must acknowledge, that notwithstanding your own changeableness who have hardly been able to maintain