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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. As to the matter of Prayer, I mean such as the state and condition of the times, now more especially suggests.
(1.) Unite your Prayers, and cry mightily to the Lord, that if it be his good pleasure, this cup of wrath which seems to be mingled and prepared, may pass from his people. Now cry to God, as they are directed to do, Joel 2. 17. Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? O pray, That England may not be delivered into the hands of blood-thirsty Papists, that the golden Candlestick may not be removed, that Idolatry may not return into those places where God hath been so sweetly Worshipped; that a Land so peculiarly blessed with Gospel-Light, wherein so many thousand sons, and daughters, have been born to God, may not at last become an Aceldama, a great Shambles, to quarter out the Limbs of his dear Saints; that the pleasant Plant of Reformation, planted with his own right ⟨p. 276⟩hand, and watered with so many tears, yea with so much blood, may not at last be rooted up by the wild Boar out of the Forrest!
(1.) Unite your Prayers, and cry mightily to the Lord, that if it be his good pleasure, this cup of wrath which seems to be mingled and prepared, may pass from his people. Now cry to God, as they are directed to do, Ioel 2. 17. Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? O pray, That England may not be delivered into the hands of blood-thirsty Papists, that the golden Candlestick may not be removed, that Idolatry may not return into those places where God hath been so sweetly Worshipped; that a Land so peculiarly blessed with Gospel-Light, wherein so many thousand sons, and daughters, have been born to God, may not at last become an Aceldama, a great Shambles, to quarter out the Limbs of his dear Saints; that the pleasant Plant of Reformation, planted with his own right