Gods promise to his plantation· as it was delivered in a sermon

Secondly, §2there be evils to be avoided that may warrant removal. First, when some grievous sins overspread a Country that threaten desolation. Mic. 2.6. to 11 verse: When the people say to them that prophesy, Prophecy not; then verse 10. Arise then, this is not your rest. Which words though they be a threatening, not a commandment; yet as in a threatening a wise man foreseeth the plague, so in the threatening he seeth a commandment, to hide himself from it. This case might have been of seasonable use unto them of the Palatinate, when they saw their Orthodox Ministers banished, although themselves might for a while enjoy liberty of conscience.

Secondly, §2there be evills to be avoided that may warrant removeall. First, when some grievous sinnes overspread a Country that threaten desolation. Mic. 2.6. to 11 verse: When the people say to them that prophecie, Prophecy not; then verse 10. Arise then, this is not your rest. Which words though they be a threatning, not a commandement; yet as in a threatning a wise man foreseeth the plague, so in the threatning he seeth a commandement, to hide himselfe from it. This case might have beene of seasonable use unto them of the Palatinate, when they saw their Orthodoxe Ministers banished, although themselves might for a while enjoy libertie of conscience.

Secondly, if men be overburdened with debts and miseries, as Davids followers were; they may then retire out of the way (as they retired to David for safety) not to defraud their Creditors, (for God is an avenger of such things, 1 Thess: 4.6.) but to gain further opportunity to discharge their debts, and to satisfy their Creditors. 1 Sam. 22.1, 2.