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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 8: 8. 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.
1. Over-awe your hearts every day and in every place with the eye of God; this walking as before God will keep you upright, Gen. 17. 1. If you so speak and live as those that know God sees you, such will be your uprightness, that you will not care if all the world see you too. An Artist came to Drusius and offered to build him an house so contrived, that he might do ⟨p. 105⟩what he would within doors and no man see him; nay said Drusius, so build it that every one may see.
2. Do no action, undertake no design that you dare not preface with Prayer; this is your rule, Phil. 4. 6. Touch not with that you dare not pray for a blessing upon; if you dare not pray, dare not to engage: If you cannot send your prayers before, be confident shame and guilt will follow after.
3. Be more afraid of grieving God, or wounding Conscience, than of displeasing or losing all the friends you have in the world besides; look upon every adventure upon sin to escape danger, to be the same thing as if you should sink the Ship to avoid one that you take to be a Pirate; or as the fatal mistake of two vials wherein there is poison and physic.
3. Be more afraid of grieving God, or wounding Conscience, than of displeasing or losing all the friends you have in the world besides; look upon every adventure upon sin to escape danger, to be the same thing as if you should sink the Ship to avoid one that you take to be a Pirate; or as the fatal mistake of two vials wherein there is poyson and physick.