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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 5 › Section 1 › Subsection 2: 2. Effect.
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.
2. Effect.
Dissimulation and Hypocrisy is the fruit of slavish Fear; distraction you see is bad enough, but dissimulation is worse than distraction, and yet as bad as it is, fear hath driven good men into this snare; it will make even an upright soul warp and bend from the rules of that integrity and candour which should be inseparable at all times from a Christian: Of whom (saith God to his Israel) hast thou been afraid, that ⟨p. 52⟩thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me? God finds falsehood, and charges it upon Fear, q. d. I know it was against the resolutions of my peoples hearts thus to dissemble, this certainly is the effect of a fright; Who is he that hath scared you into this evil? It was Abraham's fear that made him dissemble to the reproach of his Religion, Gen. 20. 2, 11. And indeed it was but an odd sight to see an heathen so schooling and reproving great Abraham about it as he there doth.
Dissimulation and Hypocrisie is the fruit of slavish Fear; distraction you see is bad enough, but dissimulation is worse than distraction, and yet as bad as it is, fear hath driven good men into this snare; it will make even an upright soul warp and bend from the rules of that integrity and candor which should be inseparable at all times from a Christian: Of whom (saith God to his Israel) hast thou been afraid, that ⟨p. 52⟩thou hast lied, and hast not remembred me? God finds falshood, and charges it upon Fear, q. d. I know it was against the resolutions of my peoples hearts thus to dissemble, this certainly is the effect of a fright; Who is he that hath scared you into this evil? It was Abraham's fear that made him dissemble to the reproach of his Religion, Gen. 20. 2, 11. And indeed it was but an odd sight to see an heathen so schooling and reproving great Abraham about it as he there doth.