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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.
Though all the Attributes in the name or Chambers of this house of God are glorious, and excellent; yet this of love is transcendently glorious: Of this room it may be said as it was of Solomon's royal Chariot, Cant. 3. 10. The midst thereof is paved with love. In this Attribute the glory of God is signally and eminently manifested, 1 John 4. 9, 10. And upon this foundation the hopes and comforts of all Believers are built and founded, Rom. 8. 35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, […] persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? He defies and despises them all, because neither of them alone, nor all together by their united strength, can unclasp the arms of Divine Love, in which Believers are safely enfolded. In this Attribute Gods people by Faith entrench themselves, and of it a Believer saith, Hic murus a•enus esto, this shall be my strong hold and fortress in the day of trouble, and well may we so esteem and reckon it, if we consider,
THough all the Attributes in the name or Chambers of this house of God are glorious, and excellent; yet this of love is transcendently glorious: Of this room it may be said as it was of Solomon's royal Chariot, Cant. 3. 10. The midst thereof is paved with love. In this Attribute the glory of God is signally and eminently manifested, 1 Iohn 4. 9, 10. And upon this foundation the hopes and comforts of all Believers are built and founded, Rom. 8. 35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, 〈…〉 persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? He defies and despises them all, because neither of them alone, nor all together by their united strength, can unclasp the arms of Divine Love, in which Believers are •afely enfolded. In this Attribute Gods people by Faith entrench themselves, and of it a Believer saith, Hic murus aenus esto, this shall be my strong hold and fortress in the day of trouble, and well may we so esteem and reckon it, if we consider,