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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 4: 4. 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.
What horrid and unparalleled tortures the servants of God felt in that cruel Massacre in Ireland, a history too tragical for a tender hearted Reader to stay long upon: And how in our own Land, the most eminent Ministers and Christians were sent to heaven in a fiery chariot in those doleful Marian day: I say when we read and consider such things as these, it rouses our fears, and puts us into frights when we see our selves threatened with the same enemies and dangers; when the feet of them that carried out the dear servants of God in bloody winding sheets to their graves, stand at the door to carry us forth next, if providence loose their chain, and give them a permission so to do; and our fears on this account are heightened by considering and revolving these four things in our thoughts, which we are always more inclined to do, than the things that should fortify our faith, and heighten our Christian courage; as,
What horrid and unparallelled tortures the servants of God felt in that cruel Massacre in Ireland, a history too tragical for a tender hearted Reader to stay long upon: And how in our own Land, the most eminent Ministers and Christians were sent to heaven in a fiery chariot in those doleful Marian day: I say when we read and consider such things as these, it rouzes our fears, and puts us into frights when we see our selves threatned with the same enemies and dangers; when the feet of them that carried out the dear servants of God in bloudy winding sheets to their graves, stand at the door to carry us forth next, if providence loose their chain, and give them a permission so to do; and our fears on this account are heightned by considering and revolving these four things in our thoughts, which we are always more inclined to do, than the things that should fortifie our faith, and heighten our Christian courage; as,
1. We are very apt to consider that as the same race and kind of men that committed these outrages upon our brethren, are still in being and that their rage and malice is not abated in the least degree, but is as fierce and cruel as ever it was, Gal. 4. 29. As then he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. So it was then, and just so it is still, the old enmity is entailed upon all wicked men from generation to generation; multi adhuc sunt qui clavum sanguine