The Genuine Works of Robert Leighton, D.D. Archbishop of Glasgow (Volume 2) - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1822 Excerpt: ... ended, when we are shut in? No, but believed firm ly that it should be finished by him, and he saved by it; and he was not disappointed. II. The end of this work was the saving of Noah, and his family, from the general deluge, wherein all the rest perished. Here it will be fit to consider the point of the preservation of the godly in ordinary and common calamities, briefly in these positions, 1. It is certain that the children of God, as they are not exempted from the common universal calamities and evils of this life, that befal the rest of men, so not from any particular kind of them. As it is appointed for them, with all others once to die, Heb. ix. 27. so we find them not privileged from any kind of disease, or other way of death; not from falling by sword, or by pestilence, or in the frenzy of a fever, or any kind of sudden death: Yea, when these, or such like, are on a land by way of public judgment, the godly are not altogether exempted from them, but may fall in them with others; as we find Moses dying in the wilderness with those he brought out of Egypt. Now, though it was for a particular failing in the wilderness, yet it evinces, that there is in this no encroachment upon their privileges, nothing contrary to the love of God towards them, and his covenant with them. 2. The promises made to the godly, of preservation from common judgments, have their truth, and are made good in many of them so preserved; though they do not hold absolutely and universally: For they are ever to be understood in subordination to their highest good: But when they are preserved, they ought to take it as a gracious accomplishment, even of these promises to them, which the wicked, many of which do likewise escape, have no right to, hut are preserved for after-judgment. 3...