A39696:203
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.
SECT. I.
WE are now come to the most difficult part of the work, viz. The Cure, of the sinful and slavish fear of Creatures in times of danger, which if it might through the blessing of God be effected, we might live at hearts ease in the midst of all our enemies and troubles, and like the Sun in the Heavens, keep on our steady course in the darkest and gloomiest day: But before I come to the particular Rules, it will be necessary for the prevention of mistakes, to lay down three useful cautions about this matter.
1. Caution.
Understand that none but those that are in Christ are capable to improve the following Rules to their advantage. The security of our souls is the great argument used by Christ to extinguish our fears of them that can kill the Body, Matth. 10. 28. But if the Soul must unavoidably perish when the Body doth, if it must drop into hell before the Body be laid in the grave: If he that kills the body doth by the same stroke cut off the Soul from all the means and possibilities of mercy and happiness for ever; what can be offered in such a case, to relieve a man against fear and trembling.