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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 7: 7. 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. A Believers living time is his fighting time, but his dying time is his conquering and triumphing time, 1 Cor. 15. 55, 56. The conflict is sharp, but the triumph is sweet; and as much as victory and triumph is better than fighting, so much is death better than life, to him that dieth in Jesus.
3 A Believers living time is his tiresome and weary time, but his dying time is his resting and sleeping time. Isai. 57. 2. Here we spend and faint, there we rest in our beds, and as much as refreshing rest in sleep is better than tiring and fainting; so much is a Believers death better than his life.
4. A Believers living time is his waiting and longing time, but his time of dying is the time of enjoying what he hath long wished and waited for, Phil. 1. 23. Here we groan and sigh for Christ, there we behold and enjoy Christ, and so much as vision and fruition is better and sweeter than hoping and waiting for it; so much is a believers death better than his life.