Chapter 3
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CHAP. III.
Shows that it is usual with God to premonish his people of approaching trials and sufferings; with some account of the manner how, and the reasons why he so forewarns them.
Shews that it is usual with God to premonish his people of approaching tryals and sufferings; with some account of the manner how, and the reasons why he so forewarns them.
AS Paul had many clear Premonitions and fore-notices of the sufferings that should befall him at Jerusalem, that he might not be surprised by them when they came; so it is usual with God (though not in such an immediate and extraordinary manner) to admonish the world, and especially his own people, of great trials and sufferings before hand, Amos 3.7. Surely the Lord will do nothing, but he revealeth his secrets unto his servants the Prophets.
AS Paul had many clear Premonitions and fore-notices of the sufferings that should befall him at Jerusalem, that he might not be surprized by them when they came; so it is usual with God (though not in such an immediate and extraordinary manner) to admonish the world, and especially his own people, of great tryals and sufferings before hand, Amos 3.7. Surely the Lord will do nothing, but he revealeth his secrets unto his servants the Prophets.
Thus when he was about to bring the Flood upon the World, he gave one hundred and twenty years warning of it before it came,