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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 5: 5. 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.
2. Be mortified to your liberty, and take heed of placing too great an esteem upon it, or necessity in it. Liberty is a desirable thing to the very birds of the air, accommodate them the best you can in your cages, feed them with the richest fare, they had rather be cold and hungry with their liberty in the woods, than fat and warm in your houses. But yet as sweet as it is, there may be more sweetness and comfort in parting with it, than in keeping it, as the case may stand. The doors of a Prison can lock you in, but they cannot lock the comforter out. Paul and Silas lost their liberty for Christ, but not their comfort with it; they never were so truly at liberty as when their feet were made fast in the stocks; they never fared so deliciously, as when they fed upon Prisoners fare. God spread a ⟨p. 90⟩Table for them in the Prison, sent them in a rich feast, yea and they had music at their feast too, and that at midnight, Acts 16. 25.
2. Be mortified to your liberty, and take heed of placing too great an esteem upon it, or necessity in it. Liberty is a desirable thing to the very birds of the air, accommodate them the best you can in your cages, feed them with the richest fare, they had rather be cold and hungry with their liberty in the woods, than fat and warm in your houses. But yet as sweet as it is, there may be more sweetness and comfort in parting with it, than in keeping it, as the case may stand. The doors of a Prison can lock you in, but they cannot lock the comforter out. Paul and Silas lost their liberty for Christ, but not their comfort with it; they never were so truly at liberty as when their feet were made fast in the stocks; they never fared so deliciously, as when they fed upon Prisoners fare. God spread a ⟨p. 90⟩Table for them in the Prison, sent them in a rich feast, yea and they had musick at their feast too, and that at midnight, Acts 16. 25.