Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…

Sinful Fear puts men under great bondage of Spirit, and makes Death a thousand times more terrible and intolerable than it would otherways be to us. You Read of some, Heb. 2. 15. Who through the fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage, (i. e.) It kept them in a miserable anxiety and perplexity of mind, like slaves that tremble at the whip which is held over them: Thus many thousands live under the lash, so terrible is the name of death, especially a violent death, that they are not able with patience to hear […] mentioned; which gave the ground of that saying, Praestat semel, quam semper mori, Its better to die once than to be dying always. And surely there is not a more miserable life any poor creature can live, than such a trembling life as this is. For,

Sinful Fear puts men under great bondage of Spirit, and makes Death a thousand times more terrible and intolerable than it would otherways be to us. You Read of some, Heb. 2. 15. Who through the fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage, (i. e.) It kept them in a miserable anxiety and perplexity of mind, like slaves that tremble at the whip which is held over them: Thus many thousands live under the lash, so terrible is the name of death, especially a violent death, that they are not able with patience to hear 〈…〉 mentioned; which gave the ground of that saying, Praestat semel, quam semper mori, Its better to die once than to be dying always. And surely there is not a more miserable life any poor creature can live, than such a trembling life as this is. For,