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Doctrine — That the attributes, promises, and providences of God are the chambers of rest and security in which His people are to hide themselves when they foresee the storms of His indignation coming upon the world. Propositions —

1. That there times and seasons appointed by God for the pouring out of His indignation upon the world.

2. That God's own people are concerned in, and ought to be affected with, those judgments.

3. That God hath a special and particular care of His people in the days of His indignation.

4. That God usually premonishes the world, especially His own people, of His judgments before they befall them.

5. That God's attributes, promises, and providences are prepared for the security of His people, in the greatest distresses that befall them in the world.

6. That one but God's people are taken into those chambers of security, or can expect His special protection in evil times. For the right stating of this proposition, three things must be heedfully regarded —

(1) That all good men are not always exempted from the stroke of outward calamities.

(2) That all wicked men are not always exposed to external miseries (Ecclesiastes 7:15).

(3) But none but the people of God have right, by promise, to His special protection in evil days; that all such shall either be preserved from the stroke of calamities, or from the deadly sting, namely, eternal ruin by them.

( J. Flavel.)

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KJV: Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

WEB: Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.