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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 2: 2. Rule.
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.
Surely it were good to fright our selves by such dreadful examples, out of our sinful fears; is any misery we can fear from the hands of man like this? O Reader, believe it, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of God: Hadst thou ever felt the rage and efficacy of a wounded and distressed Conscience, as these poor wretches felt it, no fears or threats of men should drive thee into such an Hell upon earth as this is.
2. And yet though this be a doleful case, it is not the worst case your own sinful fears will cast you into, except the Lord overcome and extinguish them in you by the fear of his name, they will not only bring you into a kind of hell upon earth, but into hell it self for evermore: For so the righteous God hath said in his word of truth, Rev. 21. 8. But the fearful, and unbelieving, &c. shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. Behold here, the Marshal Law of Heaven, executed upon Cowards and Renegadoes, whose fears make them revolt from Christ in the time of danger. Think upon this you timorous & fainthearted professors; you cannot bear the thoughts of lying in a nasty Dungeon, how will you lie then in the lake of fire and brimstone? You are afraid of the face and frowns of a man that shall die, but how will you live among Devils? Is the wrath of man, like the fury of God poured out? Is not the little finger of God heavier than the loins of all the Tyrants in the World? Remember what Christ hath said, Matth. 10. 33. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my father which is in heaven. Reader, The time is coming when he that spake these words shall break out of Heaven with a shout, accompanied with myriads of Angels, and ten thousands of his Saints, the Heavens and the Earth shall be in dreadful conflagrations round about him: The last Trump shall sound, the Graves shall open, the Earth and Sea shall give up the dead that are in them. Thine eyes shall see him ascend the awful throne of judgment, his faithful ones that feared not to own and appear for him in the face of all enemies and dangers, sitting on the bench as Assessors with him; and then to be disclaimed and renounced for ever by Jesus Christ in the