The glory and interest of nations professing the Gospel preached at a private fast,…

The persons intended are the Remnant, the Escaping, the evasion of Israel; as the word signifies, ver. 2. they that are left, that remain, ver. 3. who escape the great desolation that was to come on the body of the People, the furnace they were to pass through. Only in the close of that verse, they have a farther description added of them, from the purpose of God concerning their grace and glory; ⟨p. 2⟩they are written among the living, or rather written unto life; every one that is written, that is designed unto life in Jerusalem.

As to the persons in themselves considered, the application is easy unto this Assembly: Are you not the remnant, the escaping of England? Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Are you not they that are left, they that remain, from great trials and desolations; the Lord grant that the application may hold out, and abide to the end of the Prophecy.

As to the persons in themselves considered, the application is easie unto this Assembly: Are you not the remnant, the escaping of England? Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Are you not they that are left, they that remain, from great trials and desolations; the Lord grant that the application may hold out, and abide to the end of the Prophesie.

2. The condition that this remnant or escaping had been in is laid down in some figurative expressions concerning the smallness of this remnant, or the paucity of them that should escape, and the greatness of the extremities they should be exercised withal. I cannot insist on particulars; it may suffice that great distresses and calamities are intimated therein; and such have the days of our former trials and troubles been to some of us.