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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
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.
There is indeed an excellent use that God makes of our Fears to stimulate our slothful hearts to greater vigilance, and preparation for evils, and there is a mischievous use Satan makes of our Fears, to cast us under Despondency and unbecoming Pusillanimity; and I reckon it one of the great difficulties of Religion to cut by a thread here, and so to manage our selves under threatening or doubtful Providences, as to be touched with so much sense of those approaching evils, as may prepare us to bear them; and yet to enjoy that constancy and firmness of mind in the worst times, that may answer the excellent principles we are professedly governed by.
There is indeed an excellent use that God makes of our Fears to stimulate our slothful hearts to greater vigilance, and preparation for evils, and there is a mischievous use Satan makes of our Fears, to cast us under Despondency and vnbecoming Pusillanimity; and I reckon it one of the great difficulties of Religion to cut by a thred here, and so to manage our selves under threatning or doubtful Providences, as to be touched with so much sense of those approaching evils, as may prepare us to bear them; and yet to enjoy that constancy and firmness of mind in the worst times, that may answer the excellent principles we are professedly governed by.
These last times are certainly the most perilous times; great things are yet to be acted upon the Stage of this World before it be taken down, and the Scena antepenultima, latter end, I say not the ⟨image 5⟩last, will be a Tragedy. There is an Ultima clades adhuc metuenda, a dismal slaughter of the Witnesses of Christ, yet to be expected: the last bite of the cruel Beast will be deadly, and if we flatter not our selves, all things seem to be disposing themselves in the Course of Providence towards it.
These last times are certainly the most perillous times; great things are yet to be acted upon the Stage of this World before it be taken down, and the Scena antepenultima, latter end, I say not the ⟨image 5⟩