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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 11: 11. 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.
And yet how apt are the best men to measure things by this rule, and to judge of all Gods designs and mysterious providences by it: In other things it is the Judge and Arbiter, and therefore we would make it so here too; and what it concludes and dictates, we are prone to believe, because its dictates are backed and befriended by sense, whence it gathers its intelligence and information. O quam sapiens Argumentatrix sibi videtur ratio humana? How wise and strong do its Arguments and conclusions seem to us, saith Luther. This carnal reason is the thing that puts us into such confusions of mind and thoughts. 'Tis this that,
And yet how apt are the best men to measure things by this rule, and to judge of all Gods designs and mysterious providences by it: In other things it is the Judge and Arbiter, and therefore we would make it so here too; and what it concludes and dictates, we are prone to blieve, because its dictates are backt and befriended by sense, whence it gathers its intelligence and information. O quam sapiens Argumentatrix sibi videtur ratio humana? How wise and strong do its Arguments and conclusions seem to us, saith Luther. This carnal reason is the thing that puts us into such confusions of mind and thoughts. 'Tis this that,
1. Quarrels with the promises, shakes their credit, and our confidence in them, Exod. 5. 22, 23.
2. 'Tis this that boldly limits the Divine power, and assigns it boundaries of its own fixing, Psal. 78. 20, 41.