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A word in season
A word in season: being the commentary of Dr. Martin Luther, on three selected Psalms: viz. the CXXIVth, CXXVth, and CXXIXth. With his commentary on some part of the fourth and fifth chapters of the First Epistle of St. Peter. Being of special use for the present times.
London: printed by George Larkin, 1685
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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.
Verse 7. Our Soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the Fouler: The snare is broken, and we are delivered.
He amplifieth yet further by a third similitude, the great perils and dangers of the faithful, being in the hands of their enemies, as a bird that is taken in the snare is in the hands of the fouler; and yet notwithstanding they escaped by the mighty power of God, no otherwise then the bird that is delivered out of the snare of the fouler. By the snare is here to be understood as well the fraud and subtlety of the enemies, whereby the Israelites were brought into thraldom and captivity, as also the strength and power wherewith they were long oppressed. So that they had not only to do with Bloody and Cruel Enemies, but also ⟨p. 9⟩were entrapped and snared by fraud and subtlety, and with might and power miserably oppressed. Thus being unable both in Strength and Policy to withstand their Enemies, they were every way in danger of Death and Destruction: whereby it appeareth that they were miraculously delivered.
He amplifieth yet further by a third similitude, the great perills and dangers of the faithful, being in the hands of their enemies, as a bird that is taken in the snare is in the hands of the fouler; and yet notwithstanding they escaped by the mighty power of God, no otherwise then the bird that is delivered out of the snare of the fouler. By the snare is here to be understood as well the fraud and subtilty of the enemies, whereby the Israelites were brought into thraldom and captivity, as also the strength and power wherewith they were long oppressed. So that they had not onely to do with Bloody and Cruel Enemies, but also ⟨p. 9⟩were entrapped and snared by fraud and subtilty, and with might and power miserably oppressed. Thus being unable both in Strength and Policy to withstand their Enemies, they were every way in danger of Death and Destruction: whereby it appeareth that they were miraculously delivered.