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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 6 › Section 1 › Subsection 1: 1. Caution.
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. 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.
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 stroak 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.