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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
THE RIGHTEOUS MAN'S REFUGE, &c. › Chapter 12THE RIGHTEOVS MAN'S REFUGE, &c. › Chapter 12
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.
CHAP. XII.
Containing the first Use of the Point, in several informing Consectaries, and Deductions of truth from it.
Containing the first Vse of the Point, in several informing Consectaries, and Deductions of truth from it.
SECT. I.
Consect. 1. From the whole of this Discourse, we may be informed, What a miserable, and shiftless People all those will be, in times of trouble, who have no special interest in God or the Promises. Sad and lamentable was the case of Saul, as it is by himself expressed, 1 Sam. 28. 15. I am sore distressed, for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more. It is a wonderful, and unaccountable thing, how carnal men and women subsist, and bear up, when their earthly props, and hopes, sink under, and fail them; so long as any creature-comfort is left, thither they ⟨p. 265⟩will retreat, for relief, and succour; but if all fail, as quickly they may, Whither will they turn for comfort, having not a God, nor a Promise to flee to? which the people of God can do, when all things else fail them,