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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.
In a word, God will take none into his protection, who make any thing besides himself their hope and confidence; if we fly from God to the creature, God will say to the creature, thou shalt go, except I have thy dependence, thou shalt never have my protection; where I have no honour, thou shalt have no comfort.
4. Consect. Fourthly, The former discourse, yields us also this comfortable conclusion, That what ever confusions, desolations, and troubles be in the earth, the Church and People of God can never be wholly exterminated, and destroyed, seeing such a secure refuge is prepared for them of God, Psal. 102. 28. The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee. Which is assigned as the true reason of its perpetuity and safety, Psal. 48. 3. God is known in her palaces, for a refuge. The Church's Enemies have tried the utmost of their policies and powers in all Ages against it, but to no purpose: whilst they have been plotting and persecuting, the preserved Remnant have been singing their Song upon Alamoth, even praises to their great preserver; though they have no external visible defence, yet are they as safe, as salvation it self can make them, for salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks, Isa. 26. 1, 2. Four things are exceeding remarkable in the Churches preservation: (1.) No people were ever so fiercely opposed by the ⟨p. 271⟩powers of this world, The Kings of the earth have set themselves, and the Rulers have taken counsel together, Psal. 2. 2. All methods and artifices have been tried, sometimes to jeer and scoff them out of the Religion: so did the Apostate Julian, and sometimes by cruel tortures, to affright them from their Religion; the variety and more than barbarous inhumanity, whereof the Church Histories give us a sad and amazing account. (2.) Under these cruel Persecutions, they have seemed to be utterly lost, to the eye of sense and reason; I am left alone, said Elijah, and they seek my life,