A39696:74
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
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.
SECT. III.
3. There is an holy and laudable Fear, a Fear which is our treasure, not our torment, the chief ornament of the Soul, its beauty and perfection, not its infelicity or sin, viz. the awful filial fear of God; natural fear is a pure or simple passion of the Soul: Sinful fear is the disordered and corrupt passion of the soul; but this is the natural passion sanctified, and thereby changed and baptized into the name and nature of a Spiritual grace. This fear is also mentioned in my Text, and prescribed as an Antidote against sinful fears; it devours carnal fears as Moses serpent did those of the Enchanters. It's one of the sorest judgments to be in the fear of man day and night, Deut. 28. 65, 66, 67. and one of the sweetest mercies to be in the fear of God all the day long, Prov. 23. 17. The fear of men shortens our days, Isaiah. 22. 34▪ but the fear of the Lord prolongeth our days, Prov. 10. 27. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life ⟨p. 19⟩Prov. 14. 27. But the fear of man a fountain of mischiefs and miseries. By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil, Prov. 16. 6. but by the fear of man, men run themselves into evil Prov. 29. 25.