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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 6: 6. 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.
1. Such a bondage as this destroys all the comfort and pleasure of life, no pleasure can grow or thrive under the shadow of this cursed Plant, Nil ei beatum cui semper aliquis terror impendeat, 1saith Cicero. All the comforts we possess in this World are embittered by it. ⟨p. 60⟩'Tis storied of Damocles a flatterer of Dionysius the Tyrant, that he told him he was the happiest man in the World, having Wealth, Power, Majesty, and abundance of all things: Dionysius sets the Flatterer in all his own pomp at a Table furnished with all dainties, and attended upon as a King, but with an heavy sharp sword hanging by a single Horse hair right over his head, this made him quake and tremble so that he could neither eat nor drink but desired to be freed from that estate: The design was to convince him how miserable a life they live who live under the continual terrors of impending death and ruin. It was a sore judgment which God threatened against them in Jer. 5. 6. A Lion out of the forrest shall slay them, and a Wolf of the evening shall spoil them, a Leopard shall watch over their Cities, every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces. What a miserable life must those people live, who could not stir out of the City, but they presently were seized by Lions, Wolves, and Leopards, that watched over them, and lurked in all the Avenues to make them a prey, and yet this is more tolerable than for a mans own fear to watch continually over him.
1. Such a bondage as this destroys all the comfort and pleasure of life, no pleasure can grow or thrive under the shadow of this cursed Plant, Nil ei beatum cui semper aliquis terror impendeat, 1saith Cicero. All the comforts we possess in this World are imbittered by it. ⟨p. 60⟩'Tis storied of Democles a flatterer of Dionysius the Tyrant, that he told him he was the happiest man in the World, having Wealth, Power, Majesty, and abundance of all things: Dionysius sets the Flatterer in all his own pomp at a Table furnished with all dainties, and attended upon as a King, but with an heavy sharp sword hanging by a single Horse hair right over his head, this made him quake and tremble so that he could neither eat nor drink but desired to be freed from that estate: The design was to convince him how miserable a life they live who live under the continual terrors of impending death and ruine. It was a sore judgment which God threatned against them in