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Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…
Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part of the 14 : the second, The righteous man's refuge in the evil day, from Isaiah 26, verse 20 / by John Flavell.
London: printed by H.H. for Robert Boulter, 1682
A PRACTICAL TREATISE OF Fear, &c. › Chapter 4 › Section 1 › Subsection 2: 2. Cause.
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.
1. by aggravating small matters and blowing them up to the height of the most fatal and destructive evils; so it was with Cain, Gen. 4. 14. Every one that meets me will slay me. Now every child was a Giant in his eye, and any body he met, his over-match. A guilty Conscience gives a man no sight of his enemy, but through a magnifying, or a multiplying glass.
2 It begets Fears, by interpreting all doubtful cases in the worst sense that can be fastened upon them; Pessimus in dubiis Augur timor. If the Swallows do but chatter in the chimney, Bessus interprets it to be a discovery of his crime, that they are telling take of him, and saying, Bessus killed a man. Nay,
2 It begets Fears, by interpreting all doubtful cases in the worst sense that can befastened upon them; Pessimus in dubiis Augur timor. If the Swallows do but chatter in the chimney, Bessus interprets it to be a discovery of his crime, that they are telling take of him, and saying, Bessus killed a man. Nay,
3 If a guilty Conscience have nothing to aggravate, and magnify, nor any doubtful matter to interpret in a frightful sense, it can and often doth create fears and terrors out of nothing at all: the rules of Fear […] not like the rules in Arithmetic where many nothings make nothing, but fear can make something out of nothing, yea, many thing• and great things out of nothing at all.1 Psal. 53, 5. there wer• they in great fea• where no fear was; here was a great fear raise or created out of nothing at all had their fear been examined, an hunted home to its original, it would have bee found a pure creature of fancy, a Chimaera have no fundamentum in re, no other foundation but […] troubled fancy, and a guilty Conscience; thus it […] with Pashur, he was a very wicked man, and a bit enemy to the Prophet Jeremiah, and if there be none […] fright and terrify from abroad, rather than he […]